Health Visiting
Specialist and Higher Level Practice
Published on 10. May 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-443-06203-2 (ISBN)
Description
Health visitors are key players in todays community health plans. Their core skills in health promotion, epidemiology and surveillance make them ideal candidates for this role. Health visitors work with clients from a variety of backgrounds and this book particularly highlights work with Afro-Caribbean, South Asian and Travelling Families. It gives an insight into their customs and religions as well as the particular health needs of these groups. "Health Visiting: Specialist and Higher Level Practice" examines the evolution of the health visitor and outlines their main functions in relation to public health. It focuses on important areas of health visiting activity whilst comprehensively covering a range of issues involved in the field. These include: managing violence and aggression prevention of abuse complementary therapies nurse prescribing. This new book reflects the changes in health visitor practice brought about by legislative and educational changes particularly in relation to clinical governance, leadership and primary care group organisation.
It defines the new status of the health visitor as a specialist practitioner and explores the less easily defined area of higher level practice. Students on post-registration specialist health visitor courses, practice teacher or specialist supervisor courses, practising health visitors and community health care nurses from other disciplines will find "Health Visiting: Specialist and Higher Level Practice" an essential text for their needs.
It defines the new status of the health visitor as a specialist practitioner and explores the less easily defined area of higher level practice. Students on post-registration specialist health visitor courses, practice teacher or specialist supervisor courses, practising health visitors and community health care nurses from other disciplines will find "Health Visiting: Specialist and Higher Level Practice" an essential text for their needs.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
College/higher education
Students on post-registration specialist health visitor courses, practising health visitors, other community nurses.
Illustrations
74 ills.
Dimensions
Height: 189 mm
Width: 246 mm
Weight
890 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-443-06203-2 (9780443062032)
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Anne Robotham | Marion Frost
Health Visiting
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07/2005
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Content
Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 Specialist and Higher Level Practice Anne Robotham Chapter 2 The Development of Public Health in Health Visiting Anne Robotham with Jane DeVille-Almond Chapter 3 The Use of Health Informatics in Health Visiting Ruth Wain and Judith Shuttleworth Chapter 4 Models of Specialist and Higher Level Health Visiting Ros Carnwell Chapter 5 Skills in Health Visiting Doreen Sheldrake and Anne Robotham Chapter 6 Reflective Practice in Health Visiting Anne Robotham and Doreen Sheldrake Chapter 7 Health Visiting in Child Protection Jane McKears and Margaret Reynolds Chapter 8 The Economics of Health Visiting Jane Powell Chapter 9 Clinical and Corporate Governance and the Health Visiting Service Anne Robotham and Jane Harvey Chapter 10 Issues in Practice Randa Charles, Janice Frost, Jean Glynn, Joan Leach, Anne Plant Chapter 11 Domicillary Health Visiting and some Intervention Strategies Anne Robotham and Doreen Sheldrake Chapter 12 Ethical Issues in Prevention of Ill Health and Health Promotion Jan Rose Chapter 13 Violence and Health Visiting Anne Robotham Chapter 14 Complementary Therapies and Health Visiting Pat Alexander Chapter 15 Pharmacological Intervention - Insight into Prescribing for Health Visiting Iain Coleman Chapter 16 Public Health Needs of South Asians Shoba Gogna and Tejinder Hari Chapter 17 Afro-Caribbean and Travelling Families Health Needs Joy Jeffrey, Joanne Davis and Helen Hoult Chapter 18 Choice and Opportunity in Health Visiting Karen Reeves-Attwood References