Public Health Nursing

• Focus on Quality and Safety Education for Nurses boxes give examples of how quality and safety goals, competencies, and objectives, knowledge, skills, and attitudes can be applied in nursing practice in the community.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes illustrate the use and application of the latest research findings in public/community health nursing.
• Healthy People boxes describe federal health and wellness goals and objectives.
• Check Your Practice boxes feature a scenario and questions to promote active learning and encourage students to use clinical judgment skills as they contemplate how to best approach the task or problem in the scenario.
• Linking Content to Practice boxes describe the nurse’s role in a variety of public and community health areas, giving specific examples of the nurse’s role in caring for individuals, families, and populations.
• UNIQUE! Separate chapters covering promoting healthy communities, the Intervention Wheel, and nurse-led health centers teach students the initiatives and various approaches to population and community-centered nursing care.
• Levels of Prevention boxes address the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of community/public health nursing as related to chapter content.
• How To boxes provide practical application to practice.
• End-of-chapter Practice Application scenarios, Key Points, and Clinical Judgment Activities promote application and in-depth understanding of chapter content.

Community health nursing students in baccalaureate programs