Description
Harkness, a 2011 AJN Book of the Year Award recipant integrates the principles of epidemiology and basic biostatistics with core principles of community health nursing and public health nursing. This focus will provide both the methods and the knowledge necessary to gather, analyze, and evaluate data as evidence for community health practice decisions.
Focusing on the individual, only in the context of the community setting, Harkness also emphasizes the global community, reflecting increasingly global healthcare concerns. Cultivating critical thinking skills through case studies and examples focusing on regional national and international community settings, Harkness is an applied core text for students in Baccalaureate programs who are preparing to be generalists in community health and public health nursing (CHN & PHN).
Focusing on the individual, only in the context of the community setting, Harkness also emphasizes the global community, reflecting increasingly global healthcare concerns. Cultivating critical thinking skills through case studies and examples focusing on regional national and international community settings, Harkness is an applied core text for students in Baccalaureate programs who are preparing to be generalists in community health and public health nursing (CHN & PHN).
Features
- Integration of the principles of epidemiology and basic biostatistics with core principles of CHN & PHN: This focus will provide both the methods and the knowledge necessary to gather, analyze, and evaluate data as evidence for community health practice decisions.
- Case studies integrated throughout each chapter provide students a way to critically think about community health and apply concepts.
- Special Evidence for Practice section highlights key "evidence for practice" information.
- Practice Points help students learn to critically think about evidence-based practice.
- Critical Thinking questions at end of chapter allow students to apply chapter concepts.
- Poems and quotations give eloquent and sometimes humorous insight, showing the 'human touch' of community health nursing.
About the Author(s)
Specs
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9780781758512
- Trim Size: 8.375 x 10.875
- Pages: 550
- Pub Date: Mar 23, 2011
- Weight: 3.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
Part I. The Context of Community and Public Health Nursing 1. Community and Public Health Nursing Practice: Present, Past and Future 2. Public Health Systems 3. Health and the Global Environment Part II. Evidence Based Practice and Population Health 4. Frameworks for Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Risk Reduction 5. Epidemiology: The Science of Prevention 6. Descriptive Epidemiology 7. Gathering Evidence for Practice Part III. Implementing Nursing Practice in Community Settings 8. Planning for Community Change 9. Cultural Diversity and Values 10. Community Assessment 11. Care and Case Management, Home Health Care 12. Family Assessment Part IV. Challenges in Community and Public Health Nursing 13. Risk of Infectious and Communicable Diseases 14. Emerging Infectious Diseases 15. Violence and Abuse 16. Substance Abuse 17. Underserved Populations 18. Environmental Health 19. Community Preparedness: Disasters and Terrorism Part V. Specialty Practice 20. Community Mental Health 21. School Health 22. Faith Oriented Communities 23. Palliative and End of Life Care 24. Occupational Health Nursing
