Advanced Community Health Nursing Practice

Advanced Community Health Nursing Practice is the only resource to cover the depth of all aspects of current advanced community practice and the processes used in practice. Chapters contributed by experts in the field, integrate key concepts throughout. Coverage includes foundations of practice, community assessment, program planning, program implementation, and program evaluation. Interdisciplinary practice, community involvement, and ethical issues are also discussed.Designed specifically for graduate level students, this is an excellent resource for courses in primary care, occupational health nursing, school nursing and home health care.

Perfect for the graduate classroom, personal professional library, and clinical practice reference shelf,Advanced Community Health Nursing Practice is poised to become the definitive resource for students and clinicians who need to master community assessment, program planning, program implementation, evaluation and program revision in public health and community health nursing practice.

Written by advanced practice community health nurses specifically for community health advanced practice nursing students and clinicians, this book is a must-have for graduate students and clinicians alike. It has a major focus in advanced practice areas such as primary care, occupational health nursing, school nursing, and home health care.

• In-depth combined theory and practice approach in one convenient resource makes this a perfect classroom and clinical companion for today's busy graduate nursing students, professors, and advanced practice nurses.
• Comprehensive functional focus provides all the major tools, such as assessment models, needed by advanced practice nurses to successfully assess communities, diagnose community situations, plan programs and budgets, and evaluate programs in public and community health.
• Topical outlines introduce every chapter, providing an anticipatory structural framework for relating intra- and inter-chapter content, facilitating content mastery.
• Self-study questions, when used as a previewing tool, set students up for success; when used as a reviewing tool, these questions promote self-check, comprehension, and retention of key content and areas of application.
• Integrates current issues and concerns, such as interdisciplinary practice, community involvement, and ethics throughout the study of community and public health programs, providing a fuller, richer perspective.