2015 LWW Nursing Education Catalogue

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Community&PublicHealthNursing: Promotingthe Public’sHealth, EighthEdition, International Edition JudithAllender, PhD, RN, C,MSN, EdD 978-1-4511-8975-9 • February2013•Hardbound •8.375” x10.875” • 1168pp. •230 Illus. • 75Tables 978-1-60913-688-8 •NorthAmericanEdition:Available inUS,Canada,Australia,NewZealand, PuertoRicoandUSVirgin Islandsonly

Community&PublicHealthNursing is designed to provide students abasic grounding inpublic healthnursingprincipleswhile emphasizing aggregate-level nursing. While weaving in meaningful examples from practice throughout the text, the authors coach students on how to navigate between conceptualizing about a population-focus while also continuing to advocate and care for individuals, families, and aggregates. This student-friendly, highly illustrated text engages students, and by doing so, eases students into readily applying public health principles along with evidence-based practice, nursing science, and skills that promote health, prevent disease, as well as protect at- riskpopulations! Features • LearningObjectives and KeyTerms sharpen the reader’s focus and provideaquickguide for learning the chapter content. • A summaryof highlights at theendof each chapter provides an overviewofmaterial coveredand serves as a review for study. • Activities toPromoteCriticalThinking at the closeof each chapter isdesigned to challenge students, promote critical-thinking skills, andencourageactive involvement in solving community healthproblems.They include Internet activities. • Recurring Displays,Tables&Figures throughout the text highlight important content and createpointsof interest for student learning. • LevelsofPreventionPyramidBoxes enhanceunderstandingof the levelsof prevention concept, basic to communityhealthnursing. Eachboxaddresses a chapter topic, describes nursingactions at eachof the three levelsof prevention, and is unique to this text in its complexityand comprehensiveness. • Evidence-basedPractice incorporates current researchexamples andhow they canbeapplied topublic and communityhealth nursingpractice toachieveoptimal client andaggregateoutcomes. • From theCaseFiles provides presentationof a scenario— case studywith student-centered, application-basedquestions. Emphasizingnursingprocess, students are challenged to reflecton assessment and intervention in typical, yet challengingexamples. • Perspectives is included inmost chapters andprovides stories (viewpoints) fromavarietyof sources.Theperspectivemaybe from anursing student, anoviceor experiencedpublichealthnurse, a facultymember, apolicymaker, or a client.These short features are designed topromote critical thinking, reflecton commonlyheld misconceptions about public and communityhealthnursing, or to recognize the linkbetween skills learned in this specialtypractice andother practice settings, especiallyacute carehospitals.

Table of Contents Unit I: FoundationsofCommunity HealthNursing Ch. 1:The JourneyBegins: Introduction to CommunityHealthNursing Ch. 2:History&Evolution of Community HealthNursing Ch.3: Setting the Stage forCommunity HealthNursing Ch.4: Evidence-BasedPractice andEthics in CommunityHealthNursing Ch. 5:TransculturalNursing in the Community Unit II: PublicHealthEssentials for CommunityHealthNursing Ch. 6: Structure&Economics of CommunityHealth Services Ch. 7: Epidemiology inCommunityHealth Care

Community Health • Community-BasedNursing • Public Health Ch. 8: CommunicableDiseaseControl Ch. 9: EnvironmentalHealth and Safety Unit III: CommunityHealthNursing Toolbox Ch. 10: Communication, Collaboration, and Contracting Ch. 11:HealthPromotion: Achieving ChangeThroughEducation

Ch. 12: Planning andDeveloping Community Programs and Services Ch. 13: PolicyMaking andCommunity HealthAdvocacy Unit IV: TheCommunityasClient UnitVI: PromotingandProtecting theHealthofAggregateswith DevelopmentalNeeds UnitVII: PromotingandProtecting theHealthofVulnerablePopulations UnitVIII: Settings forCommunity HealthNursing

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