Community Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations

Based on the unique "upstream thinking" approach that emphasizes health promotion efforts to address the precursors of poor health, this edition focuses on the issues, responsibilities, and roles important for providing contemporary community health nursing care. Detailed case studies provide a community component for each step of the nursing process, and several new chapters have been added, including the economics of health care, care of the disabled population, and care for clients in prison and parish settings. The complete Instructor's Electronic Resource is available on CD-ROM and includes PowerPoint slides.

Presents the upstream thinking approach that focuses on factors that are the precursors to poor health, with interventions that emphasize community health promotion and prevention of health problems

Provides detailed case studies that emphasise community aspects of all steps of the nursing process to promote the community perspective in all health situations

Includes chapter objectives at the beginning of each chapter to emphasise key concepts the student should learn from the chapter

Provides learning activities at the end of each chapter to challenge students to apply chapter material outside the classroom

Features a new chapter (4) on epidemiology that discusses the distribution and determinants of health events in populations and addresses an important perspective for population-focused nursing care

Presents a new chapter (10) on economic matters relating to health care delivery to address matters that significantly influence decisions in a managed care environment

Provides new chapters on care for clients who are disabled (19) and those who are in prison (28)nd parish settings (29) to offer content on caring for clients who have special needs and concerns

Addresses the role of nurse case manager in a new chapter (8) on case management that discusses his relatively new role in contemporary community health