As GPs' workloads increase, more doctors are giving their nursing colleagues a higher level of autonomy in patient care. This book gives examples of good and poor practice and will also serve the needs of community nurses and others involved in primary care.

Examines public health nurse's role as a hands-on caregiver, community detective, and epidemiologist. Emphasizing primary care, community assessment, and program planning, this book provides a practical how-to model for working with a community and includes case studies from communities throughout the world.

Forty-two contributors present information, ideas, and perspectives for effective population-based community health nursing practice. Topics include community-focused care (context, influences on a community's health, care of communities and populations, and common health problems); community-based nursing care of families and individuals;

Developed to reflect the community specialist practitioner role for practice nurses. This title gives an overview of the practice nurse role in primary health care and the factors, which influence that role and its development including the context of, and challenges for, practice nursing. Areas covered include: legal issues, management, and more.

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Focuses on how to provide the type of high quality of life that older adults desire and need. This book also focuses on the integration of holistic concepts and practices; and places emphasis on the emotional and spiritual aspects of aging and gerontological care.

Suitable for those working in the primary care and community health care domain, this work examines community and public health nursing in the context of the developments in primary care and public healthcare services and provides insights to students, practitioners and managers in primary health care practice.

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Presents principles for managing complex patient care in the home environment. This title addresses the medical conditions commonly seen by the home care nurse in the context of the theoretical foundations of home health nursing. It features chapters on oncology home care, social services for a home care patient, and holistic nursing strategies.

This student centred text provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which impact on primary care nursing. It is useful to those in primary care practice, as they grapple with concepts and ideas specific to delivering care to greater numbers of people in their own environments.

An Epidemiologic Approach.

Contains what the home care nurse needs to provide quality care and effectively document care based on accepted professional standards. This handbook offers detailed standards and documentation guidelines including ICD-9-CM (diagnostic) codes, OASIS considerations, service skills, interdisciplinary goals and outcomes, and reimbursement.

Provides information about the diagnosis and treatment of conditions in the older adult. This clinical reference has emphasis on the multidisciplinary approach that reinforces the nurse practitioner's role in health care delivery through their collaboration with other health care professionals. It includes pedagogical information and references.

For students, teachers, and practitioners in nursing and other human sciences, Parse (nursing, Loyola U., Chicago) sets out the concepts and processes of community change as proposed by the human-becoming school of thought, and expands the meaning of community beyond location and interest-related groups. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland,

Synthesizes the nursing research literature in health promotion of children, pediatric acute and chronic conditions, and children and families in the health care system.

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