Public Health Nursing: Practicing Population-Based Care (Book with Access Code)

by Truglio-londrigan, Marie; Lewenson, Sandra B.

• ISBN13: 9781449683580
• ISBN10: 1449683584
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback w/ Access Code
• Copyright: 2012-08-06
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

With new chapters on disaster management, primary health care, and new technologies used in public health nursing and public health education, this newly revised edition of Public Health Nursing: Practicing Population-Based Care is a must-have resource for students interested in public health nursing and education.*Addresses the relevance of historical evidence*Explores the use of technology in public health*Provides the meaning of social epidemiology*Offers an innovative assessment tool that uses Health People 2020 as its framework*Focuses on 17 intervention strategies identified in the Population-Based Public Health Nursing Practice Intervention Wheel *Examines how these interventions can be applied to the three levels of practice: individual/family, community, and systems*Accompanied by a forthcoming Companion Website packed with online learning tools and activities to help engage students and further their understanding of the material in the text

Table of Contents

Chapter1 What is Public Health and Public Health Nursing?
Chapter2 Public Health Nursing in the United States: A History
Chapter3 Assessment: Using the Public Health Nursing Assessment Tool
Chapter4 Fundamentals of Epidemiology and Social Epidemiology
Chapter5 Evidence-Based Practice From a Public Health Perspective
Chapter6 Informatics in Public Health Nursing
Chapter7 Considerations of Culture in the Health of the Public
Chapter8 Health Care Policy and Politics: The Risk and Rewards for Public Health Nurses
Chapter9 Hitting the Pavement: Intervention of Case Finding
Chapter10 Running the Show: Referral and Follow-up, Case Management, and Delegated Functions
Chapter11 Working It Out: Consultation, Counseling, and Health Teaching
Chapter12 Working Together: Collaboration, Coalition Building, and Community Organizing
Chapter13 Getting the Word Out: Advocacy, Social Marketing, and Policy Development and Enforcement
Chapter14 Protecting, Sustaining, and Empowering: A Historical Perspective on the Control of Epidemics
Chapter15 Historical Highlights in Disaster Nursing
Chapter16 Emergency Preparedness in the 21st Century: Two post 9/11 case studies
Chapter17 Nursing Education and Public Health Nursing
Chapter18 Epilogue: A Conversation about Primary Health Care