Advanced Community Health Nursing Practice - Softcover

Ervin RN Ph.D. APRN BC FAAN, Naomi E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805373640 ISBN 13: 9780805373646

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

For graduate community health nursing and public health nursing courses with content on advanced practice including foundations of practice, community assessment, program planning, program implementation, and program evaluation. Courses for students in primary care, occupational health nursing, school nursing and home health care could also use the book for focus on the content indicated.

This book was written to provide a comprehensive source for students specializing in community health nursing and public health nursing. For the first time, one text contains the major current approaches to conceptualizing advanced community health nursing practice and the processes used in practice. The depth of material is not found in any other current text designed specifically for graduate level students.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Perfect for the graduate classroom, personal professional library, and clinical practice reference shelf, Advanced Community Health Nursing Practice is poised to become the definitive resource for students and clinicians who need to master community assessment, program planning, program implementation, evaluation and program revision in public health and community health nursing practice.

Written by advanced practice community health nurses specifically for community health advanced practice nursing students and clinicians, this book is a must-have for graduate students and clinicians alike. It has a major focus in advanced practice areas such as primary care, occupational health nursing, school nursing, and home health care.

Distinguishing key features

• In-depth combined theory and practice approach in one convenient resource makes this a perfect classroom and clinical companion for today's busy graduate nursing students, professors, and advanced practice nurses.
• Comprehensive functional focus provides all the major tools, such as assessment models, needed by advanced practice nurses to successfully assess communities, diagnose community situations, plan programs and budgets, and evaluate programs in public and community health.
• Topical outlines introduce every chapter, providing an anticipatory structural framework for relating intra- and inter-chapter content, facilitating content mastery.
• Self-study questions, when used as a previewing tool, set students up for success; when used as a reviewing tool, these questions promote self-check, comprehension, and retention of key content and areas of application.
• Integrates current issues and concerns, such as interdisciplinary practice, community involvement, and ethics throughout the study of community and public health programs, providing a fuller, richer perspective.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805373640
• ISBN 13: 9780805373646
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 498