Community Health Nursing

This resource provides an introduction to the field of community health nursing. The book's coverage balances theory with application and explores concepts, tools, family health, health promotion of populations and implications for future roles for community health nursing. This edition provides activities to promote critical thinking, such as learning objectives that ground and orient the reader as each chapter opens and key terms that alert the user to unfamiliar words. Other features include: a "research box" that stimulates an appreciation for the potential impact of research; an "issues box" that provides a forum for review of a current controversial topic; a "world watch box" that introduces and exposes the learner to the global and interdependent nature of community health; and a "levels of prevention box" that demonstrates application of each level of prevention.
 
This resource provides an introduction to the field of community health nursing. The book's coverage balances theory with application and explores concepts, tools, family health, health promotion of populations and implications for future roles for community health nursing. This edition provides activities to promote critical thinking, such as learning objectives that ground and orient the reader as each chapter opens and key terms that alert the user to unfamiliar words. Other features include: a "research box" that stimulates an appreciation for the potential impact of research; an "issues box" that provides a forum for review of a current controversial topic; a "world watch box" that introduces and exposes the learner to the global and interdependent nature of community health; and a "levels of prevention box" that demonstrates application of each level of prevention.