Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community / Edition 9

by Marcia Stanhope

Overview

The "gold standard" text in community health nursing is now available in an updated, 7th edition! This respected text gives you a solid foundation in community and public health nursing concepts and interventions for individuals, families, and communities. Throughout, health promotion and disease prevention concepts are integrated into the multifaceted role of population-focused, community-oriented nursing practice. You'll find timely coverage of topics such as nursing roles following terrorist attacks and during infectious disease outbreaks; parish nursing; nurse-managed centers; and important client populations such as clients with AIDS, pregnant teens, and the homeless. Student-friendly features provide an accessible and challenging learning experience, and new content throughout keeps you up to date with this fast-changing field.

• Comprehensive coverage addresses the multiple roles of public health nurses, the varied clients they care for, and the different settings where they practice.
• Full-color design, photos, and illustrations are visually appealing and useful for effective study and real-world representations.
• Varied client focus addresses nursing care for individuals, families, and communities, giving you the information you need to care for each type of client group.
• An entire unit is devoted to vulnerable populations, so you can better serve such high-risk clients as the homeless, clients with substance abuse problems, and victims of domestic violence.
• Important chapter concepts and terminology (Objectives, Key Terms, Chapter Outline, and Chapter Review) are highlighted for quick reference.
• Numerous appendixes offer additional resources and key information, such as screening and assessment tools and clinical practice guidelines.
• Discussion-generating features such as Did You Know?, What Do You Think?, The Cutting Edge, Nursing Tip, How-To..., Evidence-Based Practice, Practice Application questions and answers, and Levels of Prevention boxes.
• Separate chapters provide thorough coverage of significant community and public health initiatives: Healthy Cities program, nursing centers, and a community health promotion integrated model.
• Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills are encouraged with Practice Applications Clinical Decision-Making Activities.
• Evolve web site for students includes Community Assessment Applied (exercises focused on community assessment), case studies with questions and answers, NCLEX exam style review questions with answers and correct answer rationales, a glossary, answers to Practice Applications, WebLinks, and content updates.
• Evolve web site for instructors includes an Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, Image Collection, PowerPoint Slides, and tips on using Hale: Real World Community Health Nursing, 2nd Edition CD-ROM with this book.

• An entire chapter on the Minnesota Public Health Interventions Wheel explains the interventions in detail, providing a mechanism for applying this new and innovative model to practice.
• Community Assessment Applied, a FREE online resource that accompanies the text, offers tools and opportunities to practice community assessment.
• Chapter on surveillance describes monitoring health events through collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data, a key aspect of the protection of the public's health.
• Expanded content on forensic nursing in the chapter on violence, giving you detailed knowledge on this new and growing nursing specialty.
• Revised international health chapter focuses on worldwide health issues so you develop a global health perspective.
• Health education and group practices chapter encourages you to focus on community/population-level education and emphasizes family, group, and community education.
• Healthy People 2010 boxes contain objectives and data from the most recent version of this federal government health promotion initiative, relating them to the practice of community and public health nursing.
• Timely new information on disaster management addresses this complex issue in light of its implications for today's public health nurses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900323321531
Publication date:	10/07/2015
Pages:	1120
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Dr. Marcia Stanhope, RN, DSN, FAAN

Jeanette Lancaster, RN, PhD, FAAN

Table of Contents

Part 1: Perspectives in Health Care and Population-Centered Nursing

1. Population-Focused Practice: The Foundation of Specialization in Public Health Nursing

2. History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing

3. Public Health and Primary Health Care Systems and Healthcare Transformation

4. Perspectives in Global Health Care

Part 2: Influences on Health Care Delivery and Population-Centered Nursing

5. Economics of Health Care Delivery

6. Application of Ethics in the Community

7. Cultural Diversity in the Community

8. Public Health Policy

Part 3: Conceptual and Scientific Frameworks Applied to Population-Centered Nursing

9. Population-Based Public Health Nursing Practice: The Intervention Wheel (new)

10. Environmental Health

11. Epidemiology

12. Evidence-Based Practice

13. Health Education and Group Process

14. Integrating Multilevel Approaches to Promote Community Health

Part 4: Issues and Approaches in Population-Centered Nursing

15. Community as Client: Assessment and Analysis

16. Population-Centered Nursing in Rural and Urban Environments

17. Health Promotion Through Healthy Communities and Cities

18. The Nursing Center: A Model for Nursing Practice in the Community

19. Case Management

20. Bioterrorism and Disaster Management

21. Public Health Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation (new)

22. Program Management

23. Quality Management

Part 5: Health Promotion with Target Populations Across the Life Span

24. Family Development and Family Nursing Assessment

25. Family Health Risks

26. Child and Adolescent Health

27. Women’s and Men’s Health

28. Health of Older Adults

29. Compromised Populations

Part 6: Vulnerability: Issues for the Twenty-first Century

30. Vulnerability and Vulnerable Populations: An Overview

31. Poverty and Homelessness

32. Migrant Health Issues

33. Teen Pregnancy

34. Mental Health Issues

35. Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Problems

36. Violence and Human Abuse

37. Infectious Disease Prevention and Control

38. Communicable and Infectious Disease Risks

Part 7: Nurse Roles and Functions in the Community

39. The Advanced Practice Nurse in the Community

40. The Nurse Leader in the Community

41. The Nurse in Home Health and Hospice

42. The Nurse in the Schools

43. The Nurse in Occupational Health

44. The Nurse in Parish Nursing

45. Public Health Nursing at Local, State, and National Levels