Nursing in the Community: an essential guide to practice
eBook - PDF

Nursing in the Community: an essential guide to practice

  1. 119 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Nursing in the Community: an essential guide to practice

About this book

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

Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138454743
eBook ISBN
9781444114157
Edition
1
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

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

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