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.
It covers a wide range of topics, including: * Research and community nursing * Public health * Professional approaches to care * Risk management * Safeguarding * Therapeutic relationships * Care across the lifespan * Community nursing assessment * Mental health * Carers and families * Spirituality * Collaborative working * Acute care in community settings * Long-term-conditions * End-of-life care * Organisation and management of care * Leading person-centre care * Digital healthcare *
Incorporating current theory, policy, and guidelines for practice, and underpinned by a strong evidence base, each chapter features learning objectives and activities. Case studies and examples from practice serve to illustrate the practical application of theory throughout.
This is an essential text for all pre-registration nursing students, students on post-registration specialist community nursing courses, and qualified nurses entering community practice for the first time.
1: Nursing in a community environment
Sue Chilton
2: Using research to inform evidence-based care
Catherine Henshall and Lee Tomlinson
3: Public health and the promotion of well-being
Fiona Baguley and Debbie Wilson
4: Professional approaches to care
Bruce Harper-Ovstebo and Jane Mair
5: Risk identification, mitigation and management
Jayne Murphy and Lisa Clarke
6: Safeguarding
Jen Kirman and Naomi Smith
7: Therapeutic relationships across the lifespan
Elaine Allan, Louise Henderson and Emma Hay-Higgins
8: The lifespan approach
Donna Edwards and Helen Layton
9: Community nursing assessment
Helena Kelly and Sheila Cameron
10: The role of the community nurse in mental health
Roy Litvin and Julie Bliss
11: Informal carers
Mark Millar and Sevim Kaya
12: Spirituality
Ann Clarridge and Alan Gibbon
13: Collaborative working
Susie Gamble and Carol Russell
14: Approaches to acute care
Colette Henderson and Lauren Kydd
15: Emerging issues in long term conditions
Shirley Willis, Cathryn Smith and Gina Newbury
16: Providing quality end of life care
17: Organisation and management of care
Jill Y. Gould
18: Leading person-centred practice
Caroline AW Dickson
19: Digital health care
Lesley S Mills
20: Facing the future
Heather Bain
Biography
Sue Chilton is Senior Lecturer, Oxford School of Nursing & Midwifery, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Heather Bain is Associate Head of the Centre for Rural Health Sciences, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK
