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Community Health Nursing in Canada

  • 3rd Edition - December 5, 2007
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Sandra A. MacDonald, Sonya L. Jakubec, Marcia Stanhope, Jeanette Lancaster
  • Language: English

With concise, focused coverage, Community Health Nursing in Canada, 3rd Edition introduces you to all of the necessary concepts, skills, and practice of community health nur… Read more

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With concise, focused coverage, Community Health Nursing in Canada, 3rd Edition introduces you to all of the necessary concepts, skills, and practice of community health nursing. This comprehensive text from leading nursing educators also addresses the increasing awareness of social justice and the impact of society on individual health, with a shift from individual-centred care to population- and community-centred care. In this constantly evolving field, Community Health Nursing in Canada helps you develop the necessary skills to apply what you’ve learned in the practice setting.

Key features

  • UNIQUE! Evidence-Informed Practice boxes
    • illustrate how to apply the latest research findings in community health nursing.
  • Levels of Prevention boxes give examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention related to community health nursing practice.
  • Ethical Considerations boxes provide examples of ethical situations and relevant principles involved in making informed decisions in community health nursing practice.
  • UNIQUE! Chapter Indigenous Health: Working with First Nations Peoples, Inuit, and Métis chapter details community health nursing in Aboriginal communities.
  • UNIQUE! Determinants of Health boxes highlight these critical factors contributing to an individual’s health.
  • How To boxes provide specific, application-oriented information.
  • Chapter Summary sections provide a helpful summary of the key points within each chapter.

Table of contents

Unit 1: Background and Roles for Community Health Nursing

1. Community Health Nursing

2. The Evolution of Community Health Nursing in Canada

3. Community Health Nursing in Canada: Settings, Functions, and Roles

Unit 2: Community Health Foundations and Principles

4. Health Promotion

5. Evidence-Informed Practice in Community Health Nursing

6. Ethics in Community Health Nursing Practice

7. Diversity and Relational Practice in Community Health Nursing

8. Epidemiological Applications

9. Working With the Community

10. Health Program Planning and Evaluation

Unit 3: Stakeholders and Populations of Community Health Nursing Practice

11. Working With the Individual as Client: Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan

12. Working With Families

13. Working with Groups, Teams, and Partners

14. Indigenous Health: Working with First Nations People, Inuit, and Métis

15. Working With Vulnerable Populations

Unit 4: Specific Domains of Community Health Practice

16. Communicable and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control

17. Environmental Health

18. Disaster Management

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 26, 2016
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Sandra A. MacDonald

Dr. Sandra A. MacDonald, BN, MN, PhD is the Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs – Nursing, at Memorial University (MUN). Dr. MacDonald started at MUN in 1989 teaching medical surgical nursing, and leadership and management. In 1995, Dr. MacDonald designed the first interprofessional education (IPE) module on HIV/AIDS with Dr. Ian Bowmer, then Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. This IPE module continues to be used to this day. In 2010 Dr. MacDonald was awarded the Association of Registered Nurses of Newfoundland and Labrador (ARNNL) Award for Excellence in Nursing Education, and in 2011 she was awarded the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at MUN.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs – Nursing, at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

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Sonya L. Jakubec

Dr. Jakubec has a 30 year background in community mental health nursing, with practice, leadership and research in rural/remote and global health contexts. Her research concentrates on health promotion across the lifespan including palliative and grief care, with a particular interest in health and environment connections
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada

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Marcia Stanhope

Affiliations and expertise
Education and Practice Consultant and Professor Emerita, College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

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Jeanette Lancaster

Affiliations and expertise
Sadie Heath Cabiness Professor and Dean Emerita, School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; Associate, Tuft & Associates, Inc.