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Frameworks for practice
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Third Edition
Edited 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 Cousins, MSc, PGCE, RGN, HV, Lecturer, Cardiff School of Nursing and Midwifery, Primary Care and Community Nursing Directorate, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Description
The third edition of this popular and useful text has been thoroughly updated to reflect the many major changes that have taken place
in community nursing, making it an invaluable and up-to-date reference for all community nursing courses.
Audience
Post-registration nurses doing courses in Specialist Community Health Nursing which is now a third part of the Nursing and Midwifery register.
They must already be registered as Nurses or Midwives to qualify for this third part of the register. Aimed the common, shared part of
the community course, done by all, as well as their chosen specialisation of District Nursing, Health Visiting, etc.
Contents
Section 1 The changing landscape of public health
1. Recent health and social policy developments
2. Developments in primary
care
3. Innovation and change in public health
Section 2 Public health frameworks
4. Epidemiology and its application
to practice
5. Social capital and health
6. Needs assessment, public health and commissioning of services
7. Promoting health:
Frameworks for practice
8. Developments in promoting workplace health
Section 3 The family as a framework for practice
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The family: a sociological perspective
10. The family: a psychological perspective
11. Violence within the family
12. Safeguarding
children from physical abuse
Section 4 Shifting the boundaries of public health and community practice
13. Practice nursing
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District nursing
15. Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: Health Visiting
16. Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: School
Nursing
17. Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: Occupational Health Nursing
18. Community mental health nursing
19. Community
learning disability nursing
20. Community children's nursing
Section 5 Challenges for the future
21. Partnership working
in health and social care
22. Alternative ways of working
23. Advancing public health in nursing practice
Index
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Paperback, 336 pages, publication date: OCT-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2947-9
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2947-5
Imprint: BAILLIÈRE TINDALL
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Last update: 25 Nov 2009
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