Elements Of Community Nursing

This book tries to fill an existing emptiness in the literatures that approach the community nursing, being found of dispersed form the knowledge that is needed to elevate the quality of the community services and for the professional performance of nursing in the humanized art to take care and to carry out promotion and prevention of health to families, individuals and community, Therefore, a compilation of topics of community interest is made for all professionals, teachers and nursing students who have had to develop in the community health environment, guaranteeing that the contents addressed are structured and that they describe daily work algorithms that guide the community procedure, so that this text favors the health worker in charge in the community to carry out an organized and professional work. The following topics will be addressed: emergence of community nursing, transcultural nursing, home visits, palliative care for patients in the community, communication, health promotion and prevention in the community, synthesis of theories and nursing models for community work, accidents in the home.