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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Description
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
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
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
Product details
- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: August 26, 2016
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Sandra A. MacDonald
Dr. Sandra A. MacDonald, BN, MN, PhD is a retired professor of nursing from the Faculty of Nursing at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). Dr. MacDonald served for over 30 years as a faculty member and researcher, during which time she also served four years as the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs.
Sandra was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Registered Nurses of Newfoundland (ARNNL) for three terms with one term serving as the president while also serving as board member of the Canadian Nurses Association. Dr. MacDonald’s clinical expertise is in adult medical–surgical nursing, including clinical teaching in the areas of intensive care, coronary care, emergency and community. Prior to working at MUN, she was the Administrative Supervisor of an intensive care and intensive coronary care unit in a large urban setting. Her publications and research have been in primary care, community health assessment, program evaluation, simulation-based education and work-life balance for nursing students. Dr. MacDonald holds a diploma in nursing from the Salvation Army Grace General Hospital, BN and MN degrees of Nursing from MUN, and a PhD in Health Services from Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. MacDonald is the author for another Elsevier publication: Mosby’s Canadian Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests. Dr. MacDonald received the Award for Excellence in Nursing Education in 2010 from the ARNNL and the MUN President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2012. She was awarded the Primary Care Researcher of the Year Award twice from the Primary Health Care Unit at MUN for her research on community health needs and resources, and age-friendly communities.
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Sonya L. Jakubec
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Marcia Stanhope
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