Community as Partner, Fifth edition examines and defines the role of today's community health nurse as a hands-on caregiver, community detective, and epidemiologist.
Chapters focusing on demographics, assessment, analysis, strategic program planning, ethics, public policy, and more, take you through the entire nursing process, emphasizing primary health care and delivering vital knowledge and tools for developing healthy partnerships for enriching your practice in diverse communities.
Turn to the latest on:
- Preventing and managing disasters and infectious diseases
- Partnering with special aggregates and marginalized populations
- Optimizing informatics for nursing in the community
Contents
Essential Elements for Healthy Partnerships
- Community health nursing: essentials of practice
- Epidemiology, demography, and community health
- Environment and the health of communities
- Ethical quandaries in community health nursing
- Community empowerment and healing
- Cultural competence
- Partnering with communities for healthy public policy
- Informatics and community health nursing
- Preventing and managing community emergencies: disasters and infectious diseases
The Process
- A model to guide practice
- Community assessment
- Community analysis and nursing diagnosis
- Planning a community health program
- Implementing a community health program
- Evaluating a community health program
Practicing with Diverse Communities
- Promoting healthy partnerships with refugees and immigrants
- Promoting healthy partnerships with schools
- Promoting healthy partnerships with faith-based organizations
- Promoting healthy partnerships with marginalized groups
- Promoting healthy partnerships in the workplace
- Promoting healthy partnerships with community elders
Appendix: A guide to nursing assessment of the workplace
Index
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