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Stanhope and Lancaster's Community Health Nursing in Canada

  • 4th Edition - September 3, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Sandra A. MacDonald, Sonya L. Jakubec
  • Language: English

Master the nurse’s role in health promotion for Canadian populations and communities! Stanhope and Lancaster's Community Health Nursing in Canada, 4th Edition covers the… Read more

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Master the nurse’s role in health promotion for Canadian populations and communities! Stanhope and Lancaster's Community Health Nursing in Canada, 4th Edition covers the concepts and skills you need to know for effective, evidence-informed practice. It addresses individual, family, and group health as well as the social and economic conditions that can affect the health of a community. Concise, easy-to-read chapters include coverage of the latest issues, approaches, and points of view. Written by Canadian educators Sandra A. MacDonald and Sonya L. Jakubec in collaboration with Indigenous scholar Dr. R. Lisa Bourque Bearskin, this edition makes it even easier to apply nursing principles and strategies to practice.

Key features

  • UNIQUE! Evidence-Informed Practice boxes illustrate how to apply the latest research findings in community health nursing
  • UNIQUE! Indigenous Health: Working with First Nations Peoples, Inuit, and Métis chapter details community health nursing in Indigenous communities
  • UNIQUE! Determinants of Health boxes highlight the critical factors contributing to individual or group health
  • Levels of Prevention boxes give examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention related to community health nursing practice
  • CHN in Practice boxes in each chapter provide unique case studies to help you develop your assessment and critical thinking skills
  • How To boxes use real-life examples to provide specific, application-oriented information
  • Ethical Considerations boxes provide examples of ethical situations and relevant principles involved in making informed decisions in community health nursing practice
  • Cultural Considerations boxes present culturally diverse scenarios that offer questions for reflection and class discussion
  • Chapter Summary sections provide a helpful summary of the key points within each chapter

Readership

3rd year RN and 2nd year PN nursing programs at universities and colleges respectively.

Table of contents

UNIT I: 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 II: 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 III: 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 Working with People Who Experience Structural Vulnerabilities

UNIT IV: Specific Domains of Community Health Practice

16. Communicable and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control

17. Environmental Health

18. Disaster Management

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 3, 2021
  • Language: English

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.

Affiliations and expertise
Retired Professor and 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