Promoting Health in Families: Applying Family Research and Theory to Nursing Practice - Pageburst Retail

Bomar, Perri J.

ISBN 10: 145573408X ISBN 13: 9781455734085

Publisher: W B Saunders Co, 2003

Synopsis

• Presents a unique focus on health promotion and illness prevention for families.
• Addresses all major areas of family life, such as culture, roles, communication, stress management, nutrition, spirituality, sexuality, and recreation.
• Provides a theoretical and historical perspective of family health and family nursing.
• Focuses on the nursing process in the discussion of family care, especially specific interventions to use when working with families.
• Emphasizes key information through pedagogical features such as chapter objectives and chapter highlights.
• A diverse contributor panel includes experts from all areas of family health, both within nursing and in other health disciplines.

• Unique! A new chapter, Family Health Promotion During Life Threatening Illness and End of Life (Chapter 18), addresses families experiencing life-threatening illnesses and the end-of-life stage.
• Unique! A new chapter, Health Promotion of Families in Rural Settings (Chapter 20), describes the unique health care issues of families who live in rural settings.
• Theoretical Foundations for Family Health Nursing Practice (Chapter 4) presents an overview of the theories specific to family nursing.
• Using the Nursing Process with Families (Chapter 10) is devoted to all stages of the nursing process as applied to families.
• Family Health Promotion and Family Nursing in the New Millennium (Chapter 22) discusses the state of family health at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the potential effect of current and future trends.
• Unique! Canadian Perspective boxes highlight family nursing care practices in Canada, providing an international Perspective.
• Unique! Critical Thinking Activities challenge students to apply chapter content in practice settings.
• Promotes family health promotion research studies in Research Synopsis boxes.
• Presents and discusses "real-life" family health situations through Case Scenarios boxes.
• Offers more assessment tools that provide guidance for nurses as they assess and determine interventions for families in their care.

Edition details

• Publisher: W B Saunders Co
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 145573408X
• ISBN 13: 9781455734085
• Binding: Printed Access Code
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 688