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.