Synopses & Reviews
This updated and revised text examines the contemporary public health nursing role as a 'hands on' care giver combined with the public health role of community detective and epidemiologist who promotes a healthy, effective partnership with the community. It presents a global focus that is appropriate for our shrinking world and includes disaster and community health threats as well as concepts and goals addressed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The book is used as a graduate level text that focuses on community assessment and development of community health programs that address community health needs. It is also used as an adjunct text in BSN and BSN-completion programs to cover the concepts of community demographics, community assessment, analysis and advocacy.
Synopsis
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
1 PART Essential Elements for Healthy Partnerships 1
- 1 The World as Community: Globalization and Health
Lynda Law Wilson
- 2 Community Health Nursing: Essentials of Practice
Elizabeth T. Anderson
- 3 Epidemiology, Demography, and Community Health
Judith McFarlane
- 4 Environment and the Health of Communities
Robert W. McFarlane
- 5 Ethical Quandaries in Community Health Nursing
Susan Scoville Walker
- 6 Empowerment and Healing
Bruce Leonard
- 7 Cultural Competence: Common Ground for Partnerships in Health Care
Judith C. Drew
- 8 Partnering With Communities for Healthy Public Policy
Julia Henderson Gist
- 9 Informatics and Community Health Nursing
Teresa J. Walsh
- 10 Preventing and Managing Community Emergencies: Disasters and Infectious Diseases
Elnora P. Mendias and Deanna E. Grimes
2 PART
The Process
- 11 Community Assessment: Using a Model for Practice
Elizabeth T. Anderson and Judith McFarlane
- 12 Community Analysis and Nursing Diagnosis
Elizabeth T. Anderson and Judith McFarlane
- 13 Planning a Community Health Program
Elizabeth T. Anderson and Judith McFarlane
- 14 Implementing a Community Health Program
Elizabeth T. Anderson and Judith McFarlane
- 15 Evaluating a Community Health Program
Elizabeth T. Anderson and Judith McFarlane
3 PART
Practicing With Diverse Communities
- 16 Promoting Healthy Partnerships With Schools
Nina Fredland
- 17 Promoting Healthy Partnerships With Faith Communities
Nina Fredland
- 18 Promoting Healthy Partnerships With Marginalized Groups
Nina Fredland
- 19 Promoting Healthy Partnerships in the Workplace
Ann Malecha
- 20 Promoting 449 Healthy Partnerships With Community Elders
Shirley F. Hutchinson
- 21 Promoting Healthy Partnerships With Rural Communities
David Hartley
Appendix A: A Guide to Nursing Assessment of the Workplace
Ann Malecha and Nancy Zamboras
Postscript