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Public Health Nursing

Population-Centered Health Care in the Community

  • 10th Edition - May 9, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Marcia Stanhope, Jeanette Lancaster
  • Language: English

Ensure you have a solid understanding of community and public health nursing with this industry standard text! Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Commu… Read more

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Ensure you have a solid understanding of community and public health nursing with this industry standard text! Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community, 10th Edition provides up-to-date information on issues such as infectious diseases, natural and man-made disasters, and healthcare policies affecting individuals, families, and communities. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect current data, issues, trends and practices presented in an easy-to-understand, accessible format. Additionally, real-life scenarios show examples of health promotion and public health interventions. Ideal for BSN and Advanced Practice Nursing programs, this comprehensive, bestselling text will provide you with a greater understanding of public health nursing!

Key features

  • Focus on Quality and Safety Education for Nurses boxes give examples of how quality and safety goals, knowledge, competencies and skills, and attitudes can be applied to nursing practice in the community
  • Healthy People boxes highlight goals and objectives for promoting the nation’s health and wellness over the next decade
  • Linking Content to Practice boxes provide examples of the nurse’s role in caring for individuals, families, and populations in community health settings
  • Evidence-Based Practice boxes illustrate the use and application of the latest research findings in public/community health nursing
  • UNIQUE! Separate chapters on healthy cities, the Intervention Wheel, and nursing centers describe different approaches to community health initiatives
  • Levels of Prevention boxes identify specific nursing interventions at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels
  • End-of-chapter Practice Application scenarios, Key Points, and Clinical Decision-Making activities promote application and in-depth understanding of chapter content.
  • UPDATED Content and figures reflect current data, issues, trends, and practices
  • How To boxes provide you with practical application practice

Table of contents

Part 1: Influencing Factors in Public Health Nursing and Population Health

1. Public Health Foundations and Population Health

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

3. Public Health, Primary Care, and Primary Health

4. Perspectives in Global Health Care

5. Economics of Health Care Delivery

Part 2: Forces Affecting Nurses in the Delivery of Public and Population Health Care Delivery

6. Environmental Health

7. Application of Ethics in the Community

8. Cultural Diversity in the Community

9. Public Health Policy

10. Evidence-Based Practice

Part 3: Conceptual and Scientific Frameworks Applied to Nursing Practice

11. Population-Based Public Health Nursing Practice: The Intervention Wheel

12. Genomics in Public Health Nursing

13. Epidemiology

14. Infectious Disease Prevention and Control

15. Communicable and Infectious Disease Risks

Part 4: Community Level Interventions

16. Promoting Healthy Communities

17. Community as Client: Assessment and Analysis

18. Building a Culture of Health to Influence Health Equity within Communities

19. Health Education Principles Applied in Communities, Groups, Families and Individuals for Healthy Change

Part 5: Issues and Approaches in Population-Centered Nursing

20. The Nurse Managed Health Center: A Model for Public Health Nursing Practice

21. Public Health Nursing Practice and the Disaster Management Cycle

22. Public Health Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation

23. Program Management

24. Quality Management

25. Case Management

Part 6: Promoting the Health of Target Populations Across the Life Span

26. Working with Families in the Community for Healthy Outcomes

27. Family Health Risks

28. Child and Adolescent Health

29. Major Health Issues and Chronic Disease Management of Adults Across the Life Span

30. Disability Health Care Across the Lifespan

Part 7: Promoting and Protecting the Health of Vulnerable Populations

31. Vulnerability and Vulnerable Populations

32. Rural Health Issues

33. Poverty and Homelessness

34. Migrant Health Issues

35. Teen Pregnancy

36. Mental Health Issues

37. Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Problems

38. Violence and Human Abuse

Part 8: Nurses’ 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 Public Health, Home Health, Hospice, and Palliative Care

42. The Nurse in the Schools

43. The Nurse in Occupational Health

44. Forensic Nursing in the Community

45. The Nurse in the Faith Community

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

Product details

  • Edition: 10
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 18, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

MS

Marcia Stanhope

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

JL

Jeanette Lancaster

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