A Textbook of Community Nursing

Auteur

Sue Chilton is Senior Lecturer, Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Heather Bain is Associate Head of the Centre for Rural Health Sciences, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK

Résumé
This 3rd edition is a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to this essential area of practice. Fully updated to take into account the wide range of nursing roles in the community, it provides an integrated approach to care, with a focus on physical and mental wellbeing.

Contenu

1: Nursing in a community environment

2: Using research to inform evidence-based care

3: Public health and the promotion of well-being

4: Professional approaches to care

5: Risk identification, mitigation and management

6: Safeguarding

7: Therapeutic relationships across the lifespan

8: The lifespan approach

9: Community nursing assessment

10: The role of the community nurse in mental health

11: Informal carers

12: Spirituality

13: Collaborative working

14: Approaches to acute care

15: Emerging issues in long term conditions

16: Providing quality end of life care

17: Organisation and management of care

18: Leading person-centred practice

19: Digital health care

20: Facing the future