Public Health Nursing

Public Health Nursing is an essential resource for allhealth visiting students, school nursing students, and occupationalhealth nursing students, that reflects the current key changes incommunity public health nursing. It is a key textbook forspecialist practitioner programmes, and those new to the publichealth arena.
Written by relevant experts in the field, this practicaltextbook uniquely explores the three main specialties of PublicHealth Nursing: Health Visiting, School Nursing and OccupationalHealth Nursing. A particular strength of the book is the wayit shows the diversity of each discipline and how they each addressPublic Health in vastly different ways according to the needs oftheir relevant population.
This will be essential reading for all students on theSpecialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) programmesoffered across the UK.
Key features:
* Focuses on the specialist community public health nursing partof the NMC register
* Multidisciplinary, with contributors from all threespecialisms
* Concerned with improving the health of the population, ratherthan treating the diseases of individual patients
* Focuses on practice and competencies