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 Frameworks for Practice
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Second Edition
By
Dianne Watkins, MSc, PGCE, RN, RM, HV, RNT, Director, Primary Care/Community Nursing Directorate, University of Wales College of Medicine, School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Cardiff, UK
Judy Edwards, OBE, BSc(Econ), RN, RHV, PGCE,, Co-Course Director, Community Health Studies, University of Wales College of Medicine, School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Cardiff, UK
Pam Gastrell, MPhil, BA, RN, RM, RHV, DN, RNT, Cert Ed, Formerly Director of Studies, Primary Health Care, University of Southampton, UK
Description
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 provoke discussion on the common
challenges and concerns relevant to all nurses in the community.
Audience
Main: Post-registration nurses on specialist practice courses for qualifications in community nursing and health visiting;
Subsidiary:
Practising community nurses Pre-registration nurses on community placements or intending to work in the community
Contents
Preface.
Section 1 - Pressures for change. Recent health and social policy developments. Developments in primary care. Innovation and
change in public health. Quality improvement.
Section 2 - The public health framework. Epidemiology and disease prevention. Structural
issues relating to poverty and health. Frameworks for health improvement. Section 3 - The family as a framework for practice. The family:
a sociological perspective. The family: a psychological perspective. Violence within the family. Theories and prevention of child physical
abuse. Family nursing.
Section 4 - Professional frameworks for practice. Legal aspects of community health nursing. Ethics in practice.
Teamwork and team development in health and social care. Leadership in community nursing.
Section 5 - Shifting the boundaries of community
practice.- Practice nursing. District nursing. Health visiting andpublic health Nursing. Mental health nursing. Community learning disability
nursing. Community children's nursing. School nursing.
Section 6 - Challenges for the future Alternative ways of working. The challenge
of information technology. Value for money. Promoting public health: implications for community nurses.
Index
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Hardbound, 384 pages, publication date: MAY-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2659-1
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2659-X
Imprint: BAILLIÈRE TINDALL
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Last update: 27 Sep 2008
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