Fast Facts for the Faith Community Nurse Implementing FCNParish Nursing in a Nutshell

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
1st edition - June 20, 2011
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0826107125
ISBN-13: 978-0826107121 

Faith community nursing integrates traditional nursing care with the spiritual and emotional needs of individuals as they strive to achieve wellness. This easy-to-use resource for busy nurses provides succinct, clinically based coverage of the faith community nursing practice. It is based on the American Nursing Association's (ANA) Scope and Standards for Practice of Faith Community Nursing, and presents the core concepts for establishing, maintaining, and evaluating a nursing practice within a community of faith. 

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Introduction to Community-Based Nursing

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
4th edition - February 1, 2008
Paperback: 528 pages
ISBN-10: 0781772478
ISBN-13: 978-0781772471 

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. This edition includes more information on disaster management and communicable diseases and expanded, updated Medicare/Medicaid guidelines.

A companion Website on thePoint will include student activities, assessment guidelines, and forms. Instructors will have access to an Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides, and an expanded testbank. 

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Community Health Nursing Promoting and Protecting the Public's Health

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
7th edition - February 3, 2009
Hardcover: 958 pages
ISBN-10: 0781765846
ISBN-13: 978-0781765848 

Now in its Seventh Edition, this comprehensive text provides unique coverage of vulnerable aggregate populations while using the levels of prevention approach. The book focuses on public health concerns including health promotion and protection, provides strong nursing application coverage, and addresses timely issues such as disaster nursing, urban clients, and clients with disabilities/chronic illness. This edition retains popular features such as "Stop and Think" boxes, levels of prevention displays, and Using the Nursing Process and includes new features such as Evidence: The Bridge to Practice, Healthy People 2020, Student Voices, and appendices of communicable diseases.  

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Community as Partner: Theory and Practice in Nursing

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 
Sixth edition - September 25, 2010 
Paperback: 416 pages 
ISBN-10: 1605478555 
ISBN-13: 978-1605478555 

This updated and revised text examines the contemporary public health nursing role as a 'hands on' care giver combined with the public health role of community detective and epidemiologist who promotes a healthy, effective partnership with the community. It presents a global focus that is appropriate for our shrinking world and includes disaster and community health threats as well as concepts and goals addressed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The book is used as a graduate level text that focuses on community assessment and development of community health programs that address community health needs. It is also used as an adjunct text in BSN and BSN-completion programs to cover the concepts of community demographics, community assessment, analysis and advocacy. 

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Promoting Healthy Behaviour A Practical Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Professionals

Publisher: Pearson Education
1st edition - 29 April 2010
Paperback: 248 pages
ISBN-10: 0273723855
ISBN-13: 978-0273723851 

Lifestyle diseases are the scourge of the modern Western world. Smoking, eating badly, not exercising, excessive drinking: these are but a few of the major challenges facing the NHS. People understand why these habits are bad for them, and most people understand how to tackle them – so why is it that so many people don’t have a healthy lifestyle? And, more importantly, how can we change this?

This book is designed for healthcare professionals of all types, at any stage in their career. It addresses the role psychology can play in reversing poor lifestyles, putting theory into practice in the most effective and simple ways.

Including case studies, evidence based practical suggestions and key points, the text will provide an invaluable resource for all of those involved in lifestyle change. 

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Managing Long-term Conditions and Chronic Illness in Primary Care A Guide to Good Practice

Publisher: Routledge
1st edition - April 8, 2009
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0415450888
ISBN-13: 978-0415450881 

Effective management of long-term conditions is an important aspect of contemporary nursing policy and practice. Systematic and evidence-based care which takes account of the expert patient and reduces unnecessary hospital admissions is vital to support those with long-term conditions/chronic diseases and those who care for them.

This book draws together the key issues in managing long-term conditions and provides a practical and accessible guide for nurses and allied health professionals in the primary care environment. It covers background context and policy in the UK and further afield, as well as practical guidance for all key aspects of long-term condition management. 

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Community and Nurse-Managed Health Centers Getting Them Started and Keeping Them Going

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
1st edition - June 3, 2005
Paperback: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 0826123554
ISBN-13: 978-0826123558 

This book provides a step-by-step guide to starting and sustaining a community health center, with an emphasis on nurse-managed centers. The authors share their firsthand knowledge with readers, including information on developing a mission statement, pulling together an advisory board, writing a business plan, and getting funding. The process for obtaining Federally Qualified Health Center Status (and thus federal funding) is described.

Of great value is the book's Appendix, which provides very useful examples. They include sample bylaws, a full policy and procedure manual, physician and nurse practitioner collaborative agreements, job descriptions, a contract with a local agency, and outcome and assessment guidelines. 

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Public Health Nursing Practicing Population-Based Care

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
1st edition - January 14, 2010
Paperback: 600 pages
ISBN-10: 0763766542
ISBN-13: 978-0763766542 

Public Health Nursing: Practicing Population-Based Care explores the scientific discipline of public health and in particular public health nursing. This public health nursing perspective is applied throughout the chapters and demonstrates how public health nurses use various interventions based on best evidence in their practice, both to protect and enhance the health of the public. This innovative text includes key topics such as a discussion of historical evidence in coming to know the meaning of the terms used to describe public health nursing; the exploration of the use of technology in public health; social epidemiology as well as the traditional content on epidemiology; and an innovatively designed assessment tool that uses Healthy People 2010, A Systematic Approach to Health Improvement, as its framework. The highlight of this text is the focus on the 17 intervention strategies identified in the Population-Based Public Health Nursing Practice Intervention Wheel including a discussion of how these interventions may be applied to the three levels of practice: individual/family, community, and systems. 

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Nursing Practice and Health Care A Foundation Text

Publisher: Hodder Arnold
5th edition - 31 Oct 2008
Paperback: 576 pages
ISBN-10: 0340928883
ISBN-13: 978-0340928882 

Nursing Practice and Health Care is an essential companion to pre-registration nursing education programmes, for those studying at degree and diploma level, and for students on post-registration courses. 

This fifth edition has been completely revised to reflect the current professional and educational requirements for those preparing for registration as a nurse, while maintaining a strong focus on practice and reflecting the needs of those requiring nursing and health care. Additionally, it uses the 2008 NMC Code as the cornerstone for many of its chapters. 

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Public Health Nursing Policy, Politics and Practice

Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
1st edition - January 18, 2008
Hardcover: 816 pages
ISBN-10: 1401839657
ISBN-13: 978-1401839659 

Public Health Nursing: Leadership, Policy, and Practice presents cutting edge public health nursing content that focuses on populations and aggregates, the political process, public health nursing activism, and leadership in health policy development. Coverage of high risk populations, health policy, and disaster preparedness makes this text a unique tool for the public health nurse and administrator. A focus on the Healthy People 2010 objectives underscores the core functions of population-based practice and prepares the public health nurse for the challenges of today's global health issues. Readers searching for an innovative and focused text will turn to Public Health Nursing: Leadership, Policy, and Practice for the answers. 

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Community Health Nursing Frameworks for Practice

Publisher: Bailliere Tindall
2nd edition - 29 May 2003
Hardcover: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 070202659X
ISBN-13: 978-0702026591 

This new edition of a highly successful key textbook for community health courses has been fully updated to reflect the changes in primary health care over the last decade. There are new chapters on the prevention of physical child abuse, community mental health nursing, community learning disability nursing and school nursing and greater emphasis on the significance of public health as a framework for practice. Community health nursing identifies frameworks that can help define new roles in practice and will provoke discussion on the common challenges and concerns relevant to all nurses in the community. 

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Public Health Skills A Practical Guide for Nurses and Public Health Practitioners

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
1st edition - 28 Mar 2008
Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1405155191
ISBN-13: 978-1405155199 

Nurses and other public health practitioners have a crucial role to play in helping to improve the collective well being of society and so developing skills in public health - preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health - is key to this process. Public Health Skills: A practical guide for nurses and public health practitioners covers the complete spectrum of public health practice: the effective assessment and management of need, understanding policy and how to affect its implementation; before moving on to explore practical issues and themes surrounding the facilitation of public health. Within the four sections of the book, the text is organised around the ten core public health skills outlined in the National Occupational Standards for the practice of public health, covering skills including surveillance and assessment, collaborative working, working with communities, strategy development, risk management, leadership and ethics. Public Health Skills: A practical guide for nurses and public health practitioners provides the fundamental, essential knowledge and skills required to provide safe and effective practice and is an invaluable resource for all those connected to this vital, challenging and rapidly expanding aspect of health provision. 

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Nurse-Managed Wellness Centers Developing and Maintaining Your Center

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
1st edition - March 16, 2009
Paperback: 296 pages
ISBN-10: 0826121322
ISBN-13: 978-0826121325 

This practical and authoritative book provides a step-by-step guide to starting and sustaining an effective wellness center, whether non-profit or academic based. The authors present various document samples (job descriptions, contract with local government and community agencies, and outcome and assessment guides). For pedagogical use, it defines "wellness," describes wellness activities and wellness centers, and guides nurses in incorporating wellness activities into practice. 

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Partnerships in Community Mental Health Nursing & Dementia Care Practice Perspectives

Publisher: Open University Press
1st edition - 1 Aug 2007
Paperback: 312 pages
ISBN-10: 9780335215812
ISBN-13: 978-0335215812 

The book enhances the link between theory and practice, providing a rounded and evidence-based account of the complexity, breadth and diversity of community mental health nursing practice in dementia care. 

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Community Health Care Nursing

By David Sines, Mary Saunders, Janice Forbes-Burford 

Number Of Pages: 392 

Publication Date: 2009-06-09 

Community Health Care Nursing has become established as an essential source of reference for all those working in the primary care and community health care domain. The Fourth Edition of this successful text focuses on new emergent agendas which affect primary care and public health education and service delivery/improvement. 

Comprehensive and accessible, this well established text draws on a wide range of subject experts all aiming for excellence in service delivery, to produce a resource that addresses the key aspects of community health delivery reflecting the reality of the new community/primary care agenda in the United Kingdom. Integrated throughout the book are themes relevant to contemporary community healthcare nursing, including Self Managed Care/Managed Care Pathways, Long Term Conditions, Palliative care and End of Life Care, Urgent and Unscheduled Care, Offender Care, and Continuing/Intermediate Care. The result is a book which focuses on new opportunities for contemporary practice, service delivery/improvement and education response within the context of the modernized primary and public healthcare service 

Key features: 

New edition of a well-established and successful text 
Written by experts in the field 
Examines competencies in practice 
Includes evidence-based guidelines and integrates national service framework requirements 
Includes new chapters on Advanced Nursing Practice and competence assessment, modernized primary healthcare workforce and workforce change, Commissioning, and user and public engagement 

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Professional Issues in Primary Care Nursing

By Carol Cox, Marie Hill 

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell 

Number Of Pages: 336 

Publication Date: 2010-02-15 

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1405187557 

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781405187558 

As both [practice and walk-in centre] nurses continue to adapt to the constant on-going change demanded by both the public and the government paymasters they will face ever-growing self questioning about their role responsibilities and their need to remain competent, knowledgeable and safe practitioners. 

From the foreword by Professor Dame Betty Kershaw, DBE, FRCN, Education Advisor, The Royal College of Nursing, President of the Scholarship Society for Nurses and Midwives 

This book will enable you to get to grips with the professional issues that affect your practice in primary care. It is structured around the RCN domains of practice and considers a wide variety of issues such as health promotion, reflective practice and leadership. 

The book is divided into two sections. Part one sets the scene for the domains of practice which follow and considers the unique aspects of practice and walk-in center nursing. Part two considers practical aspects of each of the RCN domains of practice in turn and centers around nurse–patient relationships. 

*Provides greater understanding of issues that affect the nature of practice 

*Addresses the considerable changes in practice nursing and walk-in centers 

*Evidence-based but also contains personal experiences 

*Suitable for nurses undertaking community specialist practitioner degree courses, qualified practice nurses and walk-in centre staff 

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Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice & Research

Publisher: F A Davis Co

4th edition (December 15, 2009)
Language: English
Paperback: 640 pages
ISBN-10: 0803621663
ISBN-13: 978-0803621664 

Significantly updated and thoroughly revised, the 4th edition approaches family nursing the way it is practiced today - with an evidence-based, clinical focus built on a firm foundation of theory and research. From health promotion to end of life, a new organizational structure parallels the trajectory of illness, incorporating caring for the family along this continuum of care in a variety of specialties. This title contains family nursing chapters organized by trajectory of illness and based on evidence-based reviews of the literature and nursing interventions effective in everyday practice. It includes: discussions of four theoretical models, Family Ecological Theory, Family Resiliency Model, Family Systems Model, and Family Life Cycle Model; two new chapters, Family Social Policy and Health Disparities and Families in Disaster; s genogram and an ecomap in each clinical chapter, as well as suggestions for other screening assessment tools, when appropriate; and, coverage of families dealing with end-of-life issues now in a single chapter. 

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