Public Health and Community Nursing
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Public Health and Community Nursing

Frameworks for practice

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Public Health and Community Nursing

Frameworks for practice

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About This Book

The third edition of this popular and useful text has been thoroughly updated to reflect the many major changes that have taken place in community nursing, making it an invaluable and up-to-date reference for all community nursing courses. The book covers the current public health landscape, epidemiology, frameworks for practice, with sections on family, and on the different Community Public Health Nurse Specialists.

  • 'Real-life' case-studies link theory and practice, and promote further enquiry
  • Discussion points encourage student reflection on methods of enhancing their professional and practice development
  • A framework approach promotes development of practice
  • Key issues begin, and Summaries end, each chapter to aid studying
  • References and recommended reading promote depth and breadth of study.
  • Thorough revision to reflect changes in community nursing
  • More emphasis on public health reflects current government emphasis

New chapters on

  • epidemiology and its application to practice
  • social capital on health
  • needs assessment, public health and commissioning of services
  • promoting health - frameworks for practice
  • occupational health nursing
  • partnership working in health and social care
  • developments in promoting workforce health
  • advancing public health in nursing practice

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Publisher
Bailliere Tindall
Year
2009
ISBN
9780702042607
Edition
3
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Contributors
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. The changing landscape of public health
  8. Chapter One. Recent health and social policy developments
  9. Chapter Two. Developments in primary care
  10. Chapter Three. Innovation and change in public health
  11. Public health frameworks
  12. Chapter Four. Epidemiology and its application to practice
  13. Chapter Five. Social capital and health
  14. Chapter Six. Needs assessment, public health and commissioning of services
  15. Chapter Seven. Public health and health promotion – frameworks for practice
  16. Chapter Eight. Developments in promoting workplace health
  17. The family as a framework for practice
  18. Chapter Nine. The family
  19. Chapter Ten. The family
  20. Chapter Eleven. Violence within the family
  21. Chapter Twelve. Safeguarding children from physical abuse
  22. Shifting the boundaries of public health and community practice
  23. Chapter Thirteen. Practice nursing
  24. Chapter Fourteen. District nursing
  25. Chapter Fifteen. Specialist community public health nurse
  26. Chapter Sixteen. Specialist community public health nurse
  27. Chapter Seventeen. Specialist community public health nurse
  28. Chapter Eighteen. Community mental health nursing
  29. Chapter Nineteen. Community learning disability nursing
  30. Chapter Twenty. Community children's nursing
  31. Challenges for the future
  32. Chapter Twenty-One. Partnership working in health and social care
  33. Chapter Twenty-Two. Alternative ways of working
  34. Chapter Twenty-Three. Advancing public health in nursing practice
  35. Index