Essentials of Community-Based Nursing +

Essentials of Community-Based Nursing provides associate degree students with a solid foundation for administering nursing care in the community. Grounded in the National League for Nursing competency standards for A.D.N graduates and containing all the features of the AJN Book of the Year Award-winning main text, Essentials takes into consideration the recent changes in the healthcare system and resulting shifts in settings and roles for nurses.

Dedication

vi

About the Authors

vii

Contributors

viii

Contributors to Chapter Special Features

x

Reviewers

xii

Foreword

xiv

Preface

xv

PART ONE Community--Focused Nursing Care

UNIT I The Context of Community Health Nursing

5

(60)

Opening the Door to Health Care in the Community

7

(22)

Karen Saucier Lundy

Sharyn Janes

Sherry Hartman

Health Care Systems in Transition

29

(18)

Bonita R. Reinert

Epidemiology of Health and Illness

47

(18)

Gail A. Harkness

UNIT II Factors Influencing Community Health

65

(110)

Environmental Health

67

(34)

Carol J. Nyman

Patricia Butterfield

Jean Shreffer

Politics and the Law

101

(20)

Sharyn Janes

Karen Saucier Lundy

Heather Rakauskas Sherry

Transcultural Nursing and Global Health

121

(18)

Sharyn Janes

Communicable Disease

139

(36)

Sharyn Janes

Gale A. Spencer

UNIT III Approaches to Community Health Nursing Practice

175

(82)

Nursing Informatics in Community Health Nursing Practice

177

(14)

Russell C. McGuire

Health Education in the Community

191

(26)

Lucy Bradley-Springer

Health Promotion and Wellness

217

(22)

Joan H. Baldwin

Cynthia O'Neill Conger

Holistic and Complementary Health

239

(18)

Margaret A. Burkhardt

PART TWO Diversity in Community-Based Nursing Roles

UNIT IV Diversity in Community Health Settings and Roles

257

(114)

The Nurse's Role in Ambulatory Health Settings

259

(38)

Karen Saucier Lundy

Vicki Sutton

Barbara Foster

The Home Visit

297

(14)

Karen Saucier Lundy

Home Health and Hospice Nursing

311

(28)

Karen B. Utterback

Karen Saucier Lundy

Debra K. Lance

Mary E. Stainton

Disasters in the Community

339

(32)

Karen Saucier Lundy

Janie B. Butts

PART THREE Community--Based Nursing Care

UNIT V Care of Families in Community-Based Nursing

371

(42)

Foundations of Family Care

373

(22)

Ruth A. O'Brien

Caring for the Family in Health and Illness

395

(18)

Linda Beth Tiedje

UNIT VI Care of the Individual in Community-Based Nursing

413

(148)

Men's Health

415

(18)

A. Serder Atav

Sharyn Janes

Joseph E. Farmer

Women's Health

433

(22)

Norma G. Cuellar

Karen Saucier Lundy

Venus Callahan

Adolescent Pregnancy

455

(24)

Loretta Sweet Jemmott

Michelle Cousins Mott

Susan Oliver Dodds

Children's Health

479

(22)

Harriet J. Kitzman

H. Lorrie Yoos

Anne C. Klijanowicz

Elder Health

501

(44)

Virginia Lee Cora

Community Mental Health

545

(16)

Sarah Steen Lauterbach

Appendix

561

(1)

Index

562

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