Maurer, Frances A.

Community/public health nursing practice : health for families and populations / Frances A. Maurer, Claudia M. Smith. - 3rd edition. - St. Louis, MO : Elsevier/Saunders, c2005. - xxvi, 816 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
1. Responsibilities for care in community/public health nursing
2. Origins and future of community/public health nursing
3. The United States health care system
4. Financing of health care: context for community/public health nursing
5. International health
6. Legal context for community/public health nursing
7. Epidemiology: unraveling the mysteries of disease and health
8. Communicable diseases
9. Relevance of culture and value for community/public health nursing
10. Home visit: opening the doors for family health
11. A family perspective in community/public health nursing
12. Nursing process and families
13. Multiproblem families
14. Community assessment
15. Community diagnosis, planning, and intervention
16. Evaluation of nursing care with communities
17. Health promotion and risk reduction in the community
18. Screening and referral
19. Health teaching
20. Vulnerable populations
21. Nursing in a disaster
22. Violence: a social and family problem
23. Adolescent sexual activity and teenage pregnancy
24. Substance abuse and dependence
25. Environmental health risks: at home, at work, and in the community
26. Rehabilitation clients in the community
27. Children in the community
28. Elderly persons in the community
29. State and local health departments
30. School health
31. Home health
32. Rural health
33. Community mental health.


0721603548 (alk. paper) 9780721603544 (alk. paper)

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Community health nursing.
Public health nursing.
Community Health Nursing--United States.
Public Health Nursing--United States.

WY 106 M453c 2005