| ISBN13: | 9781032381176 |
| ISBN10: | 1032381175 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 492 pages |
| Size: | 246x174 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 67 Illustrations, black & white; 67 Line drawings, black & white; 65 Tables, black & white |
| 700 |
Medicine in general
Obstetrics and gynecology, reproductive medicine
Patient care
Environmental health, occupational health
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Patient care (charity campaign)
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A Textbook of Community Nursing
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This 3rd edition is a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to this essential area of practice. Fully updated to take into account the wide range of nursing roles in the community, it provides an integrated approach to care, with a focus on physical and mental wellbeing.
This third edition is a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to this essential area of practice. Fully updated to take into account the wide range of nursing roles in the community, it provides an integrated approach to care, with a focus on physical and mental wellbeing.
It covers a wide range of topics, including, research and community nursing, public health, professional approaches to care, risk management, safeguarding, therapeutic relationships, care across the lifespan, community nursing assessment, mental health, carers and families, spirituality, leading person-centred care, and digital healthcare.
Incorporating current theory, policy and guidelines for practice, and underpinned by a strong evidence base, each chapter features learning objectives and activities. Case studies and examples from practice serve to illustrate the practical application of theory throughout.
This is an essential text for all pre-registration nursing students, students on post-registration specialist community nursing courses and qualified nurses entering community practice for the first time.
1: Nursing in a community environment
2: Using research to inform evidence-based care
3: Public health and the promotion of well-being
4: Professional approaches to care
5: Risk identification, mitigation and management
6: Safeguarding
7: Therapeutic relationships across the lifespan
8: The lifespan approach
9: Community nursing assessment
10: The role of the community nurse in mental health
11: Informal carers
12: Spirituality
13: Collaborative working
14: Approaches to acute care
15: Emerging issues in long term conditions
16: Providing quality end of life care
17: Organisation and management of care
18: Leading person-centred practice
19: Digital health care
20: Facing the future
