Community and Public Health Nursing
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. 
 
 
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Community and Public Health Nursing
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. 
 
 
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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. 
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781975123048
Publisher: LWW
Publication date: 04/15/2021
Edition description: Tenth, North American Edition
Pages: 928
Product dimensions: 8.38(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Unit 1 Foundations of Community/Public Health Nursing 1

Chapter 1 The Journey Begins: Introduction Cherie Rector 1

Community Health 3

The Concept of Community 5

The Concept of Health 8

Components of Community/Public Health Practice 14

Characteristics of Community/Public Health Nursing 17

Chapter 2 Public Health Nursing in the Community Dana Todd 24

Core Public Health Functions 24

Standards of Practice 26

Roles of C/PHNs 27

Settings for Community and Public Health Nursing Practice 33

Chapter 3 History and Evolution of Public Health Nursing Patricia (Trish) Hanes 40

Historical Development of Community/Public Health Nursing 41

Chapter 4 Evidence-Based Practice and Ethics Cherie Rector Anne Watson Bongiorno 65

Research That Makes a Difference: The Family-Nurse Partnership (FNP) 66

Research and Evidence-Based Practice 68

Impact of Research on Community/Public Health and Nursing Practice 75

Values and Ethics in Community/Public Health Nursing 77

Values 79

Ethics 80

Chapter 5 Transcultural Nursing Sheila Adams-Leander 95

The Concept of Culture 96

Characteristics of Culture 102

Ethnocultural Health Care Practices 106

Role and Preparation of the Community/Public Health Nurse 110

Transcultural Community/Public Health Nursing Principles 111

Unit 2 Community/Public Health Essentials 121

Chapter 6 Structure and Economics of Community/Public Health Services Cherie Rector 121

Historical Influences on Health Care 122

Health Care Organizations in the United States 123

International Health Organizations 134

Development of Today's Health Care System 134

The Economics of Health Care 137

Sources of Health Care Financing: Public and Private 143

Trends and Issues Influencing Health Care Economics 152

Effects of Health Economics on Community/Public Health Practice 159

Implications for Community/Public Health Nursing 160

Chapter 7 Epidemiology in the Community Betty C. Jung 170

How Epidemiology Supports the Ten Essentials of Public Health Services 171

Historical Roots of Epidemiology 171

Concepts Basic to Epidemiology 181

Sources of information for Epidemiologic Study 190

Methods in the Epidemiologic Investigative Process 193

Conducting Epidemiologic Research 197

Chapter 8 Communicable Disease Yezenia Cadena-Malek 204

Basic Concepts Regarding Communicable Diseases 205

Major Communicable Diseases in the United States 211

Primary Prevention 224

Secondary Prevention 235

Tertiary Prevention 235

Legal and Ethical Issues in Communicable Disease Control 236

Chapter 9 Environmental Health and Safety Ruth McDermott-Levy Jeanne M. Leffers 242

Environmental Health and Nursing 243

Concepts and Frameworks For Environmental Health 244

Core Functions of Public Health 250

Global Environmental Health 266

Unit 3 Community/Public Health Nursing Toolbox 273

Chapter 10 Communication, Collaboration, and Technology Cherie Rector Colleen Marzilli 273

Communication in Community/Public Health Nursing 274

Communicating With Groups 280

Contracting in Community/Public Health Nursing 283

Collaboration and Partnerships in Community/Public Health Nursing 286

Health Technology 289

Chapter 11 Health Promotion Through Education Dana Todd 305

Healthy People 2030 and Key Concepts Related to Health Promotion 305

Health Promotion Through Change 309

Change Through Health Education 314

Chapter 12 Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Community/Public Health Programs Denise Cummins 332

Planning Community Health Programs: The Basics 333

Identifying Group or Community Health Problems 334

Evaluating Outcomes 343

Marketing and Community Health Programs 348

Securing Grants to Fund Community Health Programs 352

Chapter 13 Policy Making and Advocacy Heide R. Cygan Susan M. Swider 358

Health in These United States: How Healthy Are We? 359

Health Policy Analysis 361

Policy Analysis for the PHN 368

Political Action and Advocacy for C/PHNs 371

Current US Health Policy Options 376

Power and Empowerment 378

Unit 4 The Health of Our Population 385

Chapter 14 Family as Client Mary Ann Drake Ezra C. Holston 385

Family Health and Family Health Nursing 387

Family Characteristics and Dynamics 388

Family Health Nursing: Preparing for the Home Visit 398

Applying the Nursing Process to Family Health 407

Chapter 15 Community as Client Naomi E. Ervin Lakisha Nicole Flagg 416

When the Client Is a Community: Characteristics of Community/Public Health Nursing Practice 416

Theories and Models For Community/Public Health Nursing Practice 417

Principles of Community/Public Health Nursing 422

What Is a Healthy Community? 423

Dimensions of the Community as Client 423

The Nursing Process Applied to the Community as Client 428

Types of Community Needs Assessment 431

Methods For Collecting Community Data 435

Sources of Community Data 436

Data Analysis and Diagnosis 438

Planning to Meet the Health Needs of the Community 440

Implementing Health Promotion Plans For the Community 442

Evaluation of Implemented Community Health Improvement Plans 443

Chapter 16 Global Health Nursing Katharine West 450

A Framework for Global Health Nursing Assessment 451

Global Health Concepts 453

Global Health Trends 457

Global Health Ethics 475

Chapter 17 Disasters and Their Impact Beverly A. Dandridge 480

Disasters 480

Terrorism and Wars 496

Chapter 18 Violence and Abuse Rachell A. Ekroos Lauren Traveller 506

Dynamics and Characteristics of a Crisis 507

Overview of Violence Across the Life Cycle 508

History of Violence Against Women and Children 509

Violence Against Children 510

Intimate Partner Violence 517

Elder Abuse and Maltreatment of Older Adults 522

Other Forms of Violence 523

Healthy People 2030 and Violence Prevention 526

Levels of Prevention: Crisis Intervention and Family and Intimate Partner (IP) Violence 526

Violence From Outside the Home 530

The Nursing Process 531

Unit 5 Aggregate Populations 537

Chapter 19 Maternal-Child Health Dana Todd Carmen George 537

Health Status and Needs of Pregnant Women and Infants 538

Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers 550

Health Services for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers 558

Role of the C/PHN 564

Chapter 20 School-Age Children and Adolescents Peggy H. Anderson 569

School: Child's Work 569

Poverty: A Major Social Determinant of Health in School-Age Children and Adolescents 570

Health Problems of School-Age Children 571

Adolescent Health 586

Health Services For School-Age Children and Adolescents 599

Chapter 21 Adult Health Vanessa Amore Jones Judith L. Hold 608

Demographics of Adult Women and Men 609

Life Expectancy 610

Health Disparities 610

Health Literacy 611

Major Health Problems of Adults 611

Women's Health 616

Men's Health 625

Role of the Community Health Nurse 630

Chapter 22 Older Adults Judith M. Scott 637

Geriatrics and Gerontology 638

Health Status of Older Adults 639

Dispelling Ageism 641

Meeting the Health Needs of Older Adults 642

Levels of Prevention 643

Health Costs for Older Adults: Medicare and Medicaid 655

Elder Abuse 656

Approaches to Older Adult Care 657

Health Services for Older Adult Populations 658

End of Life: Advance Directives, Hospice, and Palliative Care 661

Care for the Caregiver 661

The Community Health Nurse in an Aging America 662

Unit 6 Vulnerable Populations 667

Chapter 23 Working With Vulnerable People Rebecca E. Sutter Lenore Hernandez 667

The Concept of Vulnerable Populations 668

Vulnerability and Inequality in Health Care 674

Working With Vulnerable Populations 677

Social Justice and Public Health Nursing 684

Chapter 24 Clients With Disabilities Charlene Niemi 689

Perspectives on Disability and Health 691

Health Promotion and Prevention Needs of Persons With Disabilities 695

Civil Rights Legislation 697

Families of Persons With Disabilities 700

Universal Design 703

The Role of the Community/Public Health Nurse 705

Chapter 25 Behavioral Health in the Community Deborah S. Einnell 710

Contemporary Issues 710

Prevention of Substance Use and Mental Disorders 715

Mental Health 717

Substance Use 719

Tobacco Use 725

Community- and Population-Based interventions 726

Chapter 26 Working with the Homeless Mary Lashley 731

Scope of the Problem 732

Health Care and the Homeless 741

Resources to Combat Homelessness 742

Role of the C/PHN 743

Chapter 27 Rural, Migrant, and Urban Communities Robin M. White 752

Definitions and Demographics 753

Rural Health 759

Migrant Health 769

Urban Health 782

Unit 7 Settings for Community/Public Health Nursing 797

Chapter 28 Public Settings Mary Jo Stanley Beverly A. Dandridge 797

Public Health Nursing 798

Public Health Funding and Governmental Structures 799

Nursing Roles in Local, State, and Federal Public Health Positions 800

Correctional Nursing 821

Correctional Nursing Careers 824

Chapter 29 Private Settings Carol Pochron Angelique Lawyer Mary Jo Stanley 829

Nurse-Led Health Centers 830

Faith Community Nursing 835

Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing 839

Nurse Entrepreneur in Community/Public Health Nursing 845

Chapter 30 Home Health and Hospice Care Elizabeth Wright Mary Jo Stanley 850

Home Health Care 850

Hospice Care 859

Appendix: Quad Council Tier 1 Community/Public Health Nursing Competencies 869

Index 873

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