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Community health care nursing : principles for practice / edited by Sheila Twinn, Barbara Roberts, Sarah Andrews.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Butterworth Heinemann, 1996.Description: xii, 527p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780750615907 (pbk) :
  • 0750615907
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.7343 TWI
Contents:
1.Introduction - nursing for communty health: changing professional issues-- Part I. Changes in health care -- Introduction -- 2.The changing organization of helath care: setting the scene -- 3.Health for all, healthy cities-- 5.Secondary to primary health care shift-- 5.A new vision for health care-- 6.Images of disability and handicap-- Part II. Frameworks for practice -- 7. Philiosophies, structures and traditions: implicaitons for a framework for practice-- 8.The contract culture: purchasers and providers-- 9.Ethics and values-- 10.Levels of care and prevention: implications for practice-- Part III. Research and using research to develop practice -- 11. Understanding use and conduct of research-- 12.Using research to inform practice -- Part IV. Patterns of living and woking: implications for health -- 13.Health at home-- 14.Health at school-- 15.Helath in the workplace-- 16.Health in residential care-- 17. Health and homelessness -- Part V. Lifecourse: implications for practice -- 18.Preconception and early pregnancy -- 19.The child-- 20.The adult-- 21.Ageing -- 22. Death and dying -- Part VI. Interventions and skills for pracitce: needs and priorities. 23. Assessing health needs-- 24.Partnership in care-- 25.The role of the clinical nurse specialist: an approach to care -- 26.Promoting positive and healthy lifestyles-- 27.Policies affecting health care: the practitioner\'s role -- 28. Advocacy-- 29.Initiating and managing change -- 30.Case management-- 31.Community development: innovation in practice.
Summary: Covers the common core of knowledge for community health care nurses, and focuses on the applications of principles to community care. Developed from a research base and written at degree level, this book encompasses professional and governmental policies and their implications for practice. It reflects the complexity of nursing in the community.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 610.7343 TWI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 120109

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Introduction - nursing for communty health: changing professional issues-- Part I. Changes in health care -- Introduction -- 2.The changing organization of helath care: setting the scene -- 3.Health for all, healthy cities-- 5.Secondary to primary health care shift-- 5.A new vision for health care-- 6.Images of disability and handicap-- Part II. Frameworks for practice -- 7. Philiosophies, structures and traditions: implicaitons for a framework for practice-- 8.The contract culture: purchasers and providers-- 9.Ethics and values-- 10.Levels of care and prevention: implications for practice-- Part III. Research and using research to develop practice -- 11. Understanding use and conduct of research-- 12.Using research to inform practice -- Part IV. Patterns of living and woking: implications for health -- 13.Health at home-- 14.Health at school-- 15.Helath in the workplace-- 16.Health in residential care-- 17. Health and homelessness -- Part V. Lifecourse: implications for practice -- 18.Preconception and early pregnancy -- 19.The child-- 20.The adult-- 21.Ageing -- 22. Death and dying -- Part VI. Interventions and skills for pracitce: needs and priorities. 23. Assessing health needs-- 24.Partnership in care-- 25.The role of the clinical nurse specialist: an approach to care -- 26.Promoting positive and healthy lifestyles-- 27.Policies affecting health care: the practitioner\'s role -- 28. Advocacy-- 29.Initiating and managing change -- 30.Case management-- 31.Community development: innovation in practice.

Covers the common core of knowledge for community health care nurses, and focuses on the applications of principles to community care. Developed from a research base and written at degree level, this book encompasses professional and governmental policies and their implications for practice. It reflects the complexity of nursing in the community.

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