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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.
List of contents
1: Nursing in a community environment2: Using research to inform evidence-based care3: Public health and the promotion of well-being4: Professional approaches to care5: Risk identification, mitigation and management6: Safeguarding7: Therapeutic relationships across the lifespan8: The lifespan approach9: Community nursing assessment10: The role of the community nurse in mental health11: Informal carers12: Spirituality13: Collaborative working14: Approaches to acute care15: Emerging issues in long term conditions16: Providing quality end of life care17: Organisation and management of care18: Leading person-centred practice19: Digital health care20: Facing the future
About the author
Sue Chilton is Senior Lecturer, Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Heather Bain is Associate Head of the Centre for Rural Health Sciences, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK
Summary
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.
