Introduction to Community Based Nursing - Softcover

Hunt RN MSN, Roberta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609136861 ISBN 13: 9781609136864

Publisher: LWW, 2012

Synopsis

This text presents foundational concepts pivotal to delivering nursing care in the community setting, with specific attention to the NLN competencies for community-based nursing care. The author examines the variety of settings and situations in which the community-based nurse provides care, highlighting cultural diversities in the patient populations, and emphasizing interactions between the individual and the family.
Some exciting features of the 5th edition include:

The Nurse Speaks/The Nursing Student Speaks is a real-life, clinical, community-based nursing example opening each chapter.
• Healthy People 2020, the foundation for the nation's 10-year health objectives, is examined and applied wherever relevant, providing the most up-to-date information on community issues such as access to care, obesity, emerging infectious diseases, technological advances, and alternative complementary therapies.
• Client Situations in Practice boxes examine real life community-based nursing situations and solutions specific to each chapter's content.
• Assessment Tools boxes provide opportunities to apply learning and test knowledge gained.

Edition details

• Publisher: LWW
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1609136861
• ISBN 13: 9781609136864
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 482