Nursing in the Community: an essential guide to practice is an introductory textbook for professionals and students who have chosen a career in community health care nursing. The book gives comprehensive coverage of the full range of professional issues, such as personal safety and the environment, in addition to public health, health promotion and family health nursing. This user-friendly text provides clear guidelines on how to transfer skills from the hospital/ acute setting to the community. In addition, it fully reflects current government health, social policy, the implications for the roles and responsibilities of the community health care nurse, and aims to support a trainee/new practitioner to function safely and effectively in the full range of community settings.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2017

ISBN

9781444114157

Edition

Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

Health Care Delivery

Cover
Book title
Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Note on terminology and abbreviations
Chapter 1 Setting the scene: an introduction
Chapter 2 New ways of working
Chapter 3 Nursing in a community environment
Chapter 4 Personal safety in the community
Chapter 5 Therapeutic relationships
Chapter 6 Working collaboratively
Chapter 7 Conceptual approaches to care
Chapter 8 Professional issues in community nursing
Chapter 9 Nursing for public health
Chapter 10 Developing health promotion practice
Index