Community as Partner Theory and Practice in Nursing

by Anderson, Elizabeth T.; McFarlane, Judith

• ISBN13: 9780781786430
• ISBN10: 0781786436
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-26
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

The thoroughly updated Fifth Edition of this AJN award-winning text examines the contemporary public health nurse's role as a hands-on caregiver, community detective, and epidemiologist. Emphasizing primary care, community assessment, and program planning, the book provides practical tools for working with communities to improve health and includes exemplars from communities throughout the world. This edition integrates Healthy People 2010 objectives throughout the exemplars. Three new chapters discuss differences between population-focused and individual-focused care; informatics in community/home health nursing; and communities in danger from bioterrorism, infectious disease, or disasters. This edition also includes more examples of rural community assessment.

Table of Contents

Community health nursing : essentials of practice	p. 3
Epidemiology, demography, and community health	p. 19
Environment and the health of communities	p. 47
Ethical quandaries in community health nursing	p. 75
Community empowerment and healing	p. 91
Cultural competence : common ground for partnerships in health care	p. 111
Partnering with communities for healthy public policy	p. 133
Informatics and community health nursing	p. 147
Preventing and managing community emergencies : disasters and infectious diseases	p. 161
A model to guide practice	p. 201
Community assessment	p. 217
Community analysis and nursing diagnosis	p. 265
Planning a community health program	p. 295
Implementing a community health program	p. 317
Evaluating a community health program	p. 333
Promoting healthy partnerships with refugees and immigrants	p. 357
Promoting healthy partnerships with schools	p. 369
Promoting healthy partnerships with faith-based organizations	p. 391
Promoting healthy partnerships with marginalized groups	p. 407
Promoting healthy partnerships in the workplace	p. 423
Promoting healthy partnerships with community elders	p. 449
A guide to nursing assessment of the workplace	p. 465
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