Foundations of Community Health Nursing: Community-Oriented Practice

Perspectives in Health Care Delivery and Community Health Nursing * Community-Oriented and Community-Based Nursing * The History of Community Health and Community Health Nursing * The Public Health and Primary Health Care Systems * INFLUENCES ON HEALTH CARE DELIVERY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING * Ethical and Cultural Influences * Environmental Health * Political and Legal Influences * Economic Influences * CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS APPLIED TO COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING PRACTICE * Epidemiological Applications in Community Health Nursing * Using Research in Community Health Nursing * Using Health Education in the Community * ISSUES AND APPROACHES IN HEALTH CARE POPULATIONS * The Community as Client and Partner * Case Management * Disaster Management * Program Management * Managing Quality * Working with Groups in the Community * ISSUES AND APPROACHES IN FAMILY AND INDIVIDUAL HEALTH CARE * Family Development and Family Nursing Assessment * Family Health Risks * Health Risks Across the Lifespan * VULNERABILITY: PREDISPOSING FACTORS * Vulnerability and Selected Vulnerable Populations * Substance Abuse in the Community * Violence in the Community * Communicable Disease: Risk and Prevention * HIV, Hepatitis, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases * COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE: ROLES AND FUNCTIONS * Community Health Nursing in the Local Health Department * Community Health Nurse as Parish Nurse * Community Health Nurse in Home Health and Hospice * Community Health Nurse in the Schools * Community Health Nurse in Occupational Health * Appendixes * Answers to Clinical Applications