Connection Materials:  Roxie Thompson Isherwood RN, BN, MEd, PhD(c)

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This comprehensive text provides unique coverage of vulnerable aggregate populations while using the levels of prevention approach. This edition will focus more on public health including health promotion and protection, increase the nursing application content, and cover the evolving issues of disaster nursing. New features include Using the Nursing Process and “Stop & Think” boxes. Also new to this edition are more discussion on the urban client and a new chapter on clients with disabilities/chronic illness. The Connection Website will provide new case studies and assessment tools. The ancillary package will include an Instructor's Resource CD-ROM with test generator, Powerpoint slides, and Instructor's Manual.

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The thoroughly updated Fifth Edition of this AJN award-winning text examines the contemporary public health nurse's role as a hands-on caregiver, community detective, and epidemiologist. Emphasizing primary care, community assessment, and program planning, the book provides practical tools for working with communities to improve health and includes exemplars from communities throughout the world.

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Family Nursing as Relational Inquiry

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Faith Community Nursing

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Designed to provide an informative introduction to nursing care in the community, this highly readable text examines the variety of settings and situations in which the community-based nurse provides care. The Third Edition will apply cultural diversity insight into community-based settings and discuss hospice nursing, forensic nursing, and specialized home health care. This edition also features two new chapters: Specialized Home Health Care Nursing and Caring for the Medically Compromised Mental Health Patient. Popular features retained are Examples of Client Situations and learning activities. The ancillary package will include an Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM with instructor’s manual and test generator.

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This text presents foundational concepts pivotal to delivering nursing care in the community setting, with specific attention to the NLN competencies for community-based nursing care. The author examines the variety of settings and situations in which the community-based nurse provides care, highlighting cultural diversities in the patient populations, and emphasizing interactions between the individual and the family. This edition includes more information on disaster management and communicable diseases and expanded, updated Medicare/Medicaid guidelines.

A companion Website on thePoint will include student activities, assessment guidelines, and forms. Instructors will have access to an Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides, and an expanded testbank.

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This comprehensive text provides unique coverage of vulnerable aggregate populations while using a levels of prevention approach. Abundant clinical examples relate theory to practice and popular features, such as Using the Nursing Process, "Stop & Think" boxes and abundant Critical Thinking exercises facilitate learning.

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This new edition offers a complete description of all the settings and situations in which community nurses provide care and health education for individuals and families.

Recognized as an AJN Book of the Year 2000, this book applies the theory of community health nursing to practice. "References an impressively diverse array of communities," says the AJN panel of judges.