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Canadian Community As Partner, 3e
Ardene Vollman RN, PhD
March 2011/Approx. 25 illus./544 pps./978-1-60547-709-1
Story:
This is the Canadian adaptation of the AJN award winning
text, Community as Partner, by Elizabeth T. Anderson and
Judith McFarlane. It examines both the contemporary
public health nursing role as a hands-on caregiver and the
public health role of community detective and
epidemiologist. It takes a Canadian perspective while
discussing the health promotion practices in Canada.
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Features:
• Discusses epidemiologic principles, culture, ethics,
informatics and challenges that face the health of
Canadians now and in the future
• Emphasizes the importance of social justice, equity,
public participation and the determinants of health
• Presents a wide range of case studies from across the
Canadian provinces, including the Nunavut Territory
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Community and Public Health Nursing:
Evidence for Practice
Gail A. Harkness DrPH, RN, FAAN
Rosanna DeMarco PhD, APRN, BC, ACRN
February 2011/Approx. 110 illus./768 pps/978-0-7817-5851-2
Story:
Preparing students for their futures as community health nurses by combining
basic biostatistics and epidemiology with community health and using case
studies to apply chapter content. Harkness makes content accessible and helps
students apply what they are learning in order to become more successful
community health nurses.
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Integration of the principles of epidemiology and basic biostatistics with core
principles of CHN & PHN.
Case studies integrated throughout each chapter: Providing students a way
to critically think about community health and apply concepts.
Special Evidence for Practice section: Highlighting key “evidence for
practice’ information
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Practice Points to help students learn to think about evidence-based
practice: Allow students to critically think about evidence-based practice
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Critical Thinking questions at end of chapter – allowing students to apply
chapter concepts
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Poems and quotations give eloquent and sometimes humorous insight into
the field of community health nursing – showing the ‘human touch’ of
community health nursing.
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Student Reflections – Providing perspective from other students to inspire
critical thinking.
Community as Partner, 6e:
Theory and Practice in Nursing
Elizabeth T. Anderson RN, DrPH, FAAN
October 2010/Approx. 30 illus./416 pps/978-1-60547-855-5
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This updated and revised text examines the contemporary public health
nursing role as a ‘hands on’ care giver combined with the public health role of
community detective and epidemiologist who promotes a healthy, effective
partnership with the community.
Features:
NEW! Discussion of Millennium 2015 Goals of WHO – Ensuring that students and
faculty are working with the most up to date information available.
NEW! Inclusion of Nightingale Declaration of Commitment for a Healthy World
by 2020 – Ensuring that students and faculty are working with the most up to
date information available.
NEW! Information on how nurses can contribute to reducing global health
challenges such as the global nursing shortage and how they can promote the
goal of “Health for All”
NEW! New chapter on global concerns (Chapter 1) – Helping students learn to
consider the global world that is accessible due to technology
NEW! New content on major health disparities between rural and urban areas –
Providing students with an in depth information to understand community
health in different settings
NEW! Strong new chapter on Rural Health – Providing students an
understanding of the unique considerations required for community nursing in a
rural environment
Community Health Nursing: Promoting & Protecting the
Public’s Health, 7e
Judith A. Allender, RN-C, MSN, EdD |Cherie Rector, PhD, RN-C |Kristine Warner, PhD, MS, MPH, RN
February 2009/ 1024 pp./ 100 illus./ 978-0-7817-6584-8
Features:
• New! The table of contents has been revamped and updated
• New! Unit 7 contains three new chapters focusing on vulnerable populations,
including:
- Chapter 25: Working with Vulnerable People
- Chapter 26: Clients with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses
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- Chapter 27: Behavioral Health in the Community
- Chapter 28: Working with the Homeless
• New! Unit 8 is entirely new focusing on practice settings in the public an d private
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sector, including:
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- Chapter 30: Public Settings for Community Health Nursing,
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- Chapter 31: Private Settings for Community Health Nursing,
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- Chapter 32: Clients Receiving Home Health and Hospice Care
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•PowerPoint Presentations• New! Evidence-based practice feature incorporates current research examples and
how they can be applied to public/community health nursing practice to achieve
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optimal client/aggregate outcomes
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• New! From the Case Files presents of a scenario/case study with student-centered,
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application-based questions
Roles & Responsibilities • New! Perspectives feature, included in most chapters, provide stories (viewpoints) from
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• New! New art has been added throughout the text to clarify important concepts and
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enhance interest in and understanding of material
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• Emphasis on aggregate-level nursing and the community health nurses' opportunity
•WebCT & Blackboardand responsibility not only to serve individuals and families, but also to promote and
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protect the health of communities and populations
• Emphasis on health promotion, health protection and illness prevention
• Presents theoretical and conceptual knowledge providing an understanding of human
needs and a rationale for nursing actions
Introduction to Community-Based Nursing, 4e
Roberta Hunt, RN, MSPH, PhD
2008/ 528 pp./ 66 illus./ 978-0-7817-7247-1
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•Pre-Lecture Quiz with
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New! A new chapter focusing on the relationship between community based
nursing and global health. This chapter also addresses the topics of environmental
health, disaster nursing, care of immigrants and refugees, and nursing advocacy
in global health.
New! A stronger emphasis on population based care
New! New nursing process focus as it relates to the care of the client and family in
community settings; population based care of communities highlights community
assessment including concepts, methods, and applications activities
Assessment Tools such as forms are included in many chapters
Community-Based Nursing Guidelines boxes consist of information to specific
interventions for the community-based nurse
Community-Based Teaching boxes list information for students to give to clients
and their families
Chapter pedagogy includes objectives, key terms, references, bibliography
Glossary helps the student review terminology
Healthy People 2010 guidelines includes health promotion and disease prevention
material
Learning Activities appear at the end of every chapter
Research in Community-Based Nursing Care boxes consist of information that
includes short paragraphs of descriptive research
What's on the Web feature contains addresses and descriptions of Web sites
related to the chapter material and providing additional resources
Faith Community Nursing
Janet Susan Hickman, EdD, RN
2005/ 368 pp./ 9 illus./ 978-0-7817-5457-6
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Integrated with the American Nurses Association (ANA) – Health Ministries
Association (HMA) in each chapter
Provides students with information and resources for beginning and
maintaining a faith community nursing ministry
Traditional community health nursing’s methods of community assessment,
health education, and program planning/evaluation supplement and
complement the content about the practice of faith community nursing
Web-based resources and additional resources are provided in each chapter
Italics are used throughout the text to highlight new or key terms, in addition
to indicating emphasis and titles of published documents