Synopses & Reviews
COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING is a readable text offering complete coverage of all major topics in community health nursing from epidemiology and communicable disease to chronic illness and home health nursing. Centered on the family as the basic unit of community, this edition highlights and expands the discussion of aggregates at risk with a new chapter on contemporary health issues including poverty and homelessness, substance abuse, and violence. The text has been thoroughly updated to describe the impact managed care is having on the health care delivery system. The various roles and responsibilities of community health nurses, within a spectrum of non-acute care settings such as schools, businesses and industries, clinics and hospice centers, are clearly described.