Nursing in the Community: an essential guide to practice / Edition 1

by Sue Chilton, Karen Melling, Dee Drew, Ann Clarridge

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780340810439
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/2004
Series:	A Hodder Arnold Publication
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sue Chilton, Karen Melling, Dee Drew, Ann Clarridge

Table of Contents

1. Setting the scene: An introduction 2. New ways of working 3. Nursing in a community environment 4. Personal safety in the community 5. Therapeutic relationships 6. Working collaboratively 7. Conceptual approaches to care 8. Professional issues in community nursing 9. Nursing for public health 10. Developing health promotion practice

Editorial Reviews

Good for an over view, for pre-registration students and further sources for reference.
University Plymouth

Good introduction for community. I like the structure around learning outcomes and tasks to do.
Mrs J Sime, Department of Nursing, University Coll

The quartet of authors fulfils the promise of the title. The book is user-friendly, with each chapter displaying learning outcomes and incorporating a scattering of exercises, reflection and examples to encourage the reader to relate theory and practice.
Nursing Standard

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