Unit I: Foundations of community health nursing --
The journey begins: introduction to community health nursing / Cherie Rector --
History and evolution of community health nursing / Kristine D. Warner --
Setting the stage for community health nursing / Kristine D. Warner --
Evidence-based practice and ethics in community health nursing / Cherie Rector --
Transcultural nursing in the community / Cherie Rector --
Unit II: Public health essentials for community health nursing --
Structure and economics of community health services / Cherie Rector --
Epidemiology in community health care / Kristine D. Warner --
Communicable disease control / Karen Smith-Sayer --
Environmental health and safety / Kristine D. Warner --
Unit III: Community health nursing toolbox --
Communication, collaboration, and contracting / Cherie Rector --
Health promotion: achieving change through education / Kristine D. Warner and Debra Millar --
Planning and developing community programs and services / Mary E. Summers and Kristine D. Warner --
Policy making and community health advocacy / Lydia C. Bourne --
Unit IV: The community as client --
Theoretical basis of community health nursing / Kristine D. Warner and Karin Lightfoot --
Community as client: applying the nursing process / Filomela A. Marshall --
Global health and international community health nursing / Marie P. Farrell --
Being prepared: disasters and terrorism / Kristine D. Warner and Sheila Hoban --
Unit V: The family as client --
Theoretical bases for promoting family health / Kathleen Riley-Lawless --
Working with families: applying the nursing process / Phyllis G. Salopek --
Violence affecting families / Sheila M. Holcomb --
Unit VI: Promoting and protecting the health of aggregates with developmental needs --
Maternal--child health: working with perinatal, infant, toddler, and preschool clients / Cherie Rector --
School-age children and adolescents / Cherie Rector --
Adult women and men / Barbara J. Blake and Gloria Ann Jones Taylor --
Older adults: aging in place / Frances Wilson and Cherie Rector --
Unit VII: Promoting and protecting the health of vulnerable populations --
Working with vulnerable people / Cherie Rector --
Clients with disabilities and chronic illnesses / Kristine D. Warner --
Behavioral health in the community / Elizabeth M. Andal and Christine L. Savage --
Working with the homeless / Mary Lashley --
Issues with rural, migrant, and urban health care / Margaret Avila and Cherie Rector --
Unit VIII: Settings for community health nursing --
Public settings for community health nursing / Erin D. Maughan --
Private settings for community health nursing / Mary Ellen Miller and Rose Utley --
Clients receiving home health and hospice care / Joyce Zerwekh.
This text introduces pharmacology to LPN students. Using a disease approach, it draws upon core concepts of anatomy, physiology, and pathology to make drug therapy understandable to students.
Handbook covers: Basic information and demographic data on the Aboriginal people of B.C. ; A description of curent health status and critical health problems facing the Aboriginal people of B.C. ; An overview of the history that has produced the burden of ill health among Aboriginal people ; A description of the historic and current roles and responsibilities of federal, provincial and Aboriginal health agencies ; Consideration of treaty making and self-government initiatives and their implications for health authorities ; An exploration of visions, models and concepts ; Questions and factors to be considered in the development of strategies for change to close the gaps in health status between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal British Columbians.
Offers source on effective management of critically ill patients. This reference includes coverage of vital topics, such as coagulation and apoptosis in certain critical care illnesses, such as acute lung injury and adult respiratory distress syndrome; sepsis and other serious infectious diseases; specific organ dysfunction and failure; and, more.