Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations, 4e

Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations, 4e Review

A practical approach helps you learn and apply core concepts of community and public health nursing. This text emphasizes both community and family as client, so you'll gain a solid understanding of these important specialties. Numerous real-life examples demonstrate your roles and responsibilities as a community health nurse. Not only is this text your leading source for need-to-know information, it is the only community/public health book to devote a full chapter to screening and referral!

• A unique chapter on screening and referral details the process of early detection of disease, a significant responsibility of community/public health nursing.
• Coverage of the community as client includes each step of the nursing process as applied to the community.
• Family coverage emphasizes the importance of viewing the family as a singular client.
• A chapter on community assessment provides a complete assessment tool, with application to two different types of communities.
• Healthy People 2010 boxes, including the Midcourse Review, reinforce the primary prevention aspect of community/public health nursing.
• A unique discussion describes the difference between geopolitical and social communities.
• Student-friendly features include Focus Questions, Chapter Outlines, Key Ideas, Learning by Experience and Reflection, and Suggested Readings.
• Practical application features include Case Studies, Ethics in Practice, and The Nursing Process in Practice.
• The companion Evolve website includes critical thinking questions, scenarios, and exercises challenging you to apply concepts to clinical situations.

• The new ANA Standards for Public Health Nursing are addressed in detail, helping you prepare for population-focused practice.
• The Minnesota Wheel of public health nursing interventions, a widely accepted framework for practice, offers a model for improving population health.
• Expanded information about managed care, health care reforms, and universal health care initiatives addresses the current issues in health care delivery.
• New content about Medicare Part D addresses prescription drug coverage and how it affects health care financing for elderly people.
• Recent national disasters and lessons learned from them are highlighted in a Disaster Management chapter.
• New coverage of human exposure to environmental chemicals and the impact of global warming on health explain important risks to public health.
• Expanded coverage of health literacy helps you provide needed patient education.
• A Study Aids section in each chapter lists the resources available on the companion Evolve website.

Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice, and Research (Hanson, Family Health Care Nursing)

Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice, and Research (Hanson, Family Health Care Nursing) Review

The latest edition of this popular text has been totally revised and reorganized with your student's success in mind. You will find new chapters, easy-to-read bulleted chapter summaries, and a new, more colorful design to capture your students' attention. And, an expanded Instructor's Manual will be posted to fadavis.com for easy access.

Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice, and Research, 4th Edition

Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice, and Research, 4th Edition Review

Significantly updated and thoroughly revised, the 4th Edition approaches family nursing the way it is practiced today with an evidence-based, clinical focus built on a firm foundation of theory and research. From health promotion to end of life, a new organizational structure parallels the trajectory of illness, incorporating caring for the family along this continuum of care in a variety of specialties.

Family Health Social Work Practice: A Macro Level Approach

Family Health Social Work Practice: A Macro Level Approach Review

Pardeck and his contributors approach the topic of family health from a macro perspective. Family health is a holistic approach to treatment embracing aspects of family functioning not typically considered in other more traditional approaches to assessment and treatment. They place particular emphasis on the ecological context in which the family functions, including the neighborhood, community, and other larger social systems. Family health is defined as the development of, and continuous interaction among, the physical, mental, emotional, social, economic, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of the family, that result in the holistic well-being of the family and its members. The chapters in the book are guided by a number of key premises, including (a) Family health social work practice is grounded in a biopsychosocial approach to assessment and treatment; (b) Family health is based in a systems-ecological approach to assessment and intervention because of the role that various systems play in the well-being of the family; (c) Family health views the family system as the most important system for promoting the growth and development of the person; (d) Family health social work practice requires close collaboration between social work practitioners and other professionals. Based on these basic premises, Pardeck focuses on the macro level issues of family health practice that include community intervention, policy and program development, and program administration. The book is an important resource for social work professionals, scholars, students, and other researchers involved with social work practice and human services.

Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations

Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations Review

A practical approach helps you learn and apply core concepts of community and public health nursing. This text emphasizes both community and family as client, so you'll gain a solid understanding of these important specialties. Numerous real-life examples demonstrate your roles and responsibilities as a community health nurse. Not only is this text your leading source for need-to-know information, it is the only community/public health book to devote a full chapter to screening and referral!

• A unique chapter on screening and referral details the process of early detection of disease, a significant responsibility of community/public health nursing.
• Coverage of the community as client includes each step of the nursing process as applied to the community.
• Family coverage emphasizes the importance of viewing the family as a singular client.
• A chapter on community assessment provides a complete assessment tool, with application to two different types of communities.
• Healthy People 2010 boxes, including the Midcourse Review, reinforce the primary prevention aspect of community/public health nursing.
• A unique discussion describes the difference between geopolitical and social communities.
• Student-friendly features include Focus Questions, Chapter Outlines, Key Ideas, Learning by Experience and Reflection, and Suggested Readings.
• Practical application features include Case Studies, Ethics in Practice, and The Nursing Process in Practice.
• The companion Evolve website includes critical thinking questions, scenarios, and exercises challenging you to apply concepts to clinical situations.

• The new ANA Standards for Public Health Nursing are addressed in detail, helping you prepare for population-focused practice.
• The Minnesota Wheel of public health nursing interventions, a widely accepted framework for practice, offers a model for improving population health.
• Expanded information about managed care, health care reforms, and universal health care initiatives addresses the current issues in health care delivery.
• New content about Medicare Part D addresses prescription drug coverage and how it affects health care financing for elderly people.
• Recent national disasters and lessons learned from them are highlighted in a Disaster Management chapter.
• New coverage of human exposure to environmental chemicals and the impact of global warming on health explain important risks to public health.
• Expanded coverage of health literacy helps you provide needed patient education.
• A Study Aids section in each chapter lists the resources available on the companion Evolve website.