Additional Reading
These chapters from other Jones and Bartlett titles provide further information on community health nursing in different areas such as ethics, gerontology, informatics and vulnerable populations.
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Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice, Second Edition
Janie B. Butts, DSN, RN, The University of Southern Mississippi, School of Nursing, Mississippi
Karen L. Rich, PhD, RN, The University of Southern Mississippi, Long Beach, Mississippi
Chapter: Community/Public Health Nursing Ethics
- Distinguishes a moral community from a population, applies different ethical approaches to specific community/public health nursing issues, explains what it means for a nurse to be a servant leader, discusses health care disparities and identifies populations at risk, identifies ethical issues and questions that are outcomes of the human genome project, and analyzes communicable disease-related ethical issues.
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Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care
Kristen L. Mauk, PhD, RN, CRRN-A, APRN, BC, Valparaiso University
Chapter: Identifying and Preventing Common Risk Factors in the Elderly
- Discusses techniques for assessing and treating factors that lead to functional decline in the elderly, explains the protocol for reporting elder abuse, cites the expert recommendations for flu and pneumonia vaccines, describes recommended screening evaluations for the elderly population and identifies risk factors and signs of abuse in the elderly.
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Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge
Dee McGonigle, PhD, RN, FACCE, FAAN, Penn State University, New Kensington, Editor-in-Chief, Online Journal or Nursing Informatics (OJNI)
Kathleen Mastrian, PhD, RN, Penn State Shenango
Chapter: Using Informatics to Promote Community/Population Health
- Provides an overview of community and population health informatics, defines the roles of federal, state, and local public health agencies in the development of public health informatics and describes informatics tools for promoting community and population health.
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Caring for the Vulnerable: Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Practice, and Research, Second Edition
Mary de Chesnay, DSN, RN, CS, FAAN, Seattle University College of Nursing, Seattle, Washington
Barbara A. Anderson, DrPH, CNM, CHES, Seattle University College of Nursing, Seattle, Washington
Chapter: The Use of Community-Based Participatory Research to Understand and Work with Vulnerable Populations
- Discusses research that has been done to develop effective interventions regarding the health of vulnerbale populations, and the concern of healthcare providers and policymakers and presents an overview of community-based participatory research as an approach to learning about and working effectively with vulnerable populations.
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Caring for the Vulnerable: Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Practice, and Research, Second Edition
Mary de Chesnay, DSN, RN, CS, FAAN, Seattle University College of Nursing, Seattle, Washington
Barbara A. Anderson, DrPH, CNM, CHES, Seattle University College of Nursing, Seattle, Washington
Chapter: Healthy Communities: A Framework for Experiential Learning in Community Health Nursing
- Examines the idea of how educators need to help students to seek out strengths rather than problems, the indicators of a healthy community rather than a list of community services and evidences of interface between vulnerbale populations and their community help students to develop an integrated framework of community assessment. This framework being the ecological model of health, a strong foundational theory for educating students.
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