Community and Public Health Nursing 10th Edition by Cherie Rector, ISBN-13: 978-1975123048

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Community and Public Health Nursing 10th Edition by Cherie Rector, ISBN-13: 978-1975123048

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• Publisher: ‎ LWW; Tenth, North American edition (April 15, 2021)
• Language: ‎ English
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1975123042
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1975123048

Approachable and tailored to today’s active learners, Community and Public Health.

Nursing: Promoting the Public’s Health, 10th Edition presents an engaging introduction to population-focused care, helping students broaden their viewpoints from the client–nurse relationship to a community healthcare focus. This highly visual, student-friendly text incorporates bulleted lists, infographics, and a plethora of meaningful real-life examples and case studies to facilitate a foundational understanding of public health principles and evidence-based practice. The 10th edition continues to highlight the relevance of population-focused tools and interventions to acute care as well as community and public health settings, and to equip students with the skills and understanding to confidently promote health, foster disease prevention, and protect at-risk populations.

Covering a multitude of commonly encountered community and public settings, situations, and populations — including older adults, homeless populations, veterans, refugees, and the LGBTQ community — this updated edition has been extensively revised and reorganized to familiarize students with today’s most prominent public health issues and empower them to provide the most effective nursing care wherever they may choose to practice.

• UPDATED! New and revised content throughout reflects the growing need for effective community-based care across the changing healthcare landscape.
• UPDATED! Streamlined organization emphasizes Healthy People 2030 framework and goals and keeps students focused on essential trends and concepts.
• NEW! Ten Essential Public Health Services content incorporated into Active Learning Exercises encourages students to consider situations/questions within this critical context.
• UPDATED! Emphasis on vulnerable groups throughout the text alerts students to specific considerations in the care of diverse population groups, including older adults, veterans, refugees, homeless populations, and the LGBTQ community.
• Evidence-Based Practice features familiarize students with current research examples and their effective application in community/public health nursing practice.
• Stories from the Field boxes present real-world scenarios that emphasize the nursing process and challenge students to consider assessment and intervention in a public health context.
• Levels of Prevention Pyramid boxes enhance students’ understanding of the levels of prevention concepts that are basic to community health nursing.
• Healthy People 2030 content highlights pertinent goals and objectives for health promotion for specific populations.
• Perspectives features immerse students in various viewpoints to promote critical thinking, dispel commonly held misconceptions, and emphasize the link between skills learned in specialty practice and other practice settings.
• What Do YOU Think? features push students to think deeply and reach valuable conclusions on subject matter unique to public health.
• QSEN: Focus on Quality features alert you to Quality and Safety Education for Nurses concepts related to environmental health and disasters, patient-centered care (family/community; empowerment), teamwork/collaboration (communication; system barriers), EBP/QI/ethics and data (e.g., tracking the homeless).
• Population Focus features strengthen your ability to consider chapter concepts from a population-focused perspective.
• C/PHN Use of the Nursing Process boxes allow students to see how assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation are used within the context of community/public health situations as presented in selected chapters.
• Active Learning Exercises offer essential practice applying chapter concepts to actively solving community health problems.
• Learning Objectives and Key Terms focus students’ attention on essential concepts and vocabulary.
• Summaries provide a concise, bulleted review of preceding chapter content.
• References at the end of each chapter expand students’ knowledge through current research and a broad base of authoritative information sources.

Table of Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

About the Authors

Contributors

Reviewers

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Special Boxes In This Book

UNIT 1: Foundations of Community/Public Health Nursing

CHAPTER 1: The Journey Begins: Introduction

Community Health

The Concept of Community

The Concept of Health

Components of Community/Public Health Practice

Characteristics of Community/Public Health Nursing

CHAPTER 2: Public Health Nursing in the Community

Core Public Health Functions

Standards of Practice

Roles of C/PHNs

Settings for Community and Public Health Nursing Practice

CHAPTER 3: History and Evolution of Public Health Nursing

Historical Development of Community/Public Health Nursing

CHAPTER 4: Evidence-Based Practice and Ethics

Research That Makes a Difference: The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)

Research and Evidence-Based Practice

Impact of Research on Community/Public Health and Nursing Practice

Values and Ethics in Community/Public Health Nursing

Values

Ethics

CHAPTER 5: Transcultural Nursing

The Concept of Culture

Characteristics of Culture

Ethnocultural Health Care Practices

Role and Preparation of the Community/Public Health Nurse

Transcultural Community/Public Health Nursing Principles

UNIT 2: Community/Public Health Essentials

CHAPTER 6: Structure and Economics of Community/Public Health Services

Historical Influences on Health Care

Health Care Organizations in the United States

International Health Organizations

Development of Today’s Health Care System

The Economics of Health Care

Sources of Health Care Financing: Public and Private

Trends and Issues Influencing Health Care Economics

Effects of Health Economics on Community/Public Health Practice

Implications for Community/Public Health Nursing

CHAPTER 7: Epidemiology in the Community

How Epidemiology Supports the Ten Essentials of Public Health Services

Historical Roots of Epidemiology

Concepts Basic to Epidemiology

Sources of Information for Epidemiologic Study

Methods in the Epidemiologic Investigative Process

Conducting Epidemiologic Research

CHAPTER 8: Communicable Disease

Basic Concepts Regarding Communicable Diseases

Major Communicable Diseases in the United States

Primary Prevention

Secondary Prevention

Tertiary Prevention

Legal and Ethical Issues in Communicable Disease Control

CHAPTER 9: Environmental Health and Safety

Environmental Health and Nursing

Concepts and Frameworks for Environmental Health

Core Functions of Public Health

Global Environmental Health

UNIT 3: Community/Public Health Nursing Toolbox

CHAPTER 10: Communication, Collaboration, and Technology

Communication in Community/Public Health Nursing

Communicating with Groups

Contracting in Community/Public Health Nursing

Collaboration and Partnerships in Community/Public Health Nursing

Health Technology

CHAPTER 11: Health Promotion Through Education

Healthy People 2030 and Key Concepts Related to Health Promotion

Health Promotion Through Change

Change Through Health Education

CHAPTER 12: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Community/Public Health Programs

Planning Community Health Programs: The Basics

Identifying Group or Community Health Problems

Evaluating Outcomes

Marketing and Community Health Programs

Securing Grants to Fund Community Health Programs

CHAPTER 13: Policy Making and Advocacy

Health in These United States: How Healthy Are We?

Health Policy Analysis

Policy Analysis for the PHN

Political Action and Advocacy for C/PHNs

Current US Health Policy Options

Power and Empowerment

UNIT 4: The Health of Our Population

CHAPTER 14: Family as Client

Family Health and Family Health Nursing

Family Characteristics and Dynamics

Family Health Nursing: Preparing for the Home Visit

Applying the Nursing Process to Family Health

CHAPTER 15: Community as Client

When the Client Is a Community: Characteristics of Community/Public Health Nursing Practice

Theories and Models for Community/Public Health Nursing Practice

Principles of Community/Public Health Nursing

What Is a Healthy Community?

Dimensions of the Community as Client

The Nursing Process Applied to the Community as Client

Types of Community Needs Assessment

Methods for Collecting Community Data

Sources of Community Data

Data Analysis and Diagnosis

Planning to Meet the Health Needs of the Community

Implementing Health Promotion Plans for the Community

Evaluation of Implemented Community Health Improvement Plans

CHAPTER 16: Global Health Nursing

A Framework for Global Health Nursing Assessment

Global Health Concepts

Global Health Trends

Global Health Ethics

CHAPTER 17: Disasters and Their Impact

Disasters

Terrorism and Wars

CHAPTER 18: Violence and Abuse

Dynamics and Characteristics of a Crisis

Overview of Violence Across the Life Cycle

History of Violence Against Women and Children

Violence Against Children

Intimate Partner Violence

Elder Abuse and Maltreatment of Older Adults

Other Forms of Violence

Healthy People 2030 and Violence Prevention

Levels of Prevention: Crisis Intervention and Family and Intimate Partner (IP) Violence

Violence From Outside the Home

The Nursing Process

UNIT 5: Aggregate Populations

CHAPTER 19: Maternal–Child Health

Health Status and Needs of Pregnant Women and Infants

Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers

Health Services for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers

Role of the C/PHN

CHAPTER 20: School-Age Children and Adolescents

School: Child’s Work

Poverty: A Major Social Determinant of Health in School-Age Children and Adolescents

Health Problems of School-Age Children

Adolescent Health

Health Services for School-Age Children and Adolescents

CHAPTER 21: Adult Health

Demographics of Adult Women and Men

Life Expectancy

Health Disparities

Health Literacy

Major Health Problems of Adults

Women’s Health

Men’s Health

Role of the Community Health Nurse

CHAPTER 22: Older Adults

Geriatrics and Gerontology

Health Status of Older Adults

Dispelling Ageism

Meeting the Health Needs of Older Adults

Levels of Prevention

Health Costs for Older Adults: Medicare and Medicaid

Elder Abuse

Approaches to Older Adult Care

Health Services for Older Adult Populations

End of Life: Advance Directives, Hospice, and Palliative Care

Care for the Caregiver

The Community Health Nurse in an Aging America

UNIT 6: Vulnerable Populations

CHAPTER 23: Working With Vulnerable People

The Concept of Vulnerable Populations

Vulnerability and Inequality in Health Care

Working With Vulnerable Populations

Social Justice and Public Health Nursing

CHAPTER 24: Clients With Disabilities

Perspectives on Disability and Health

Health Promotion and Prevention Needs of Persons With Disabilities

Civil Rights Legislation

Families of Persons With Disabilities

Universal Design

The Role of the Community/Public Health Nurse

CHAPTER 25: Behavioral Health in the Community

Contemporary Issues

Prevention of Substance Use and Mental Disorders

Mental Health

Substance Use

Tobacco Use

Community- and Population-Based Interventions

CHAPTER 26: Working with the Homeless

Scope of the Problem

HEALTH CARE AND THE HOMELESS

Resources To Combat Homelessness

Role Of The C/Phn

CHAPTER 27: Rural, Migrant, and Urban Communities

Definitions and Demographics

Rural Health

Migrant Health

Agricultural Labor and Immigration Policies Changing

Urban Health

UNIT 7: Settings for Community/Public Health Nursing

CHAPTER 28: Public Settings

Public Health Nursing

Public Health Funding and Governmental Structures

Nursing Roles in Local, State, and Federal Public Health Positions

Correctional Nursing

Correctional Nursing Careers

CHAPTER 29: Private Settings

Nurse-Led Health Centers

Faith Community Nursing

Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing

Nurse Entrepreneur in Community/Public Health Nursing

CHAPTER 30: Home Health and Hospice Care

Home Health Care

Hospice Care

Quad Council Tier 1 Community/Public Health Nursing Competencies

Index

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