Rural Nursing
Concepts, Theory, and Practice
4th Edition
Published on 20. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
520 pages
978-0-8261-7085-9 (ISBN)
Description
The fourth edition of the only text to focus on nursing concepts, theory, and practice in rural settings continues to provide comprehensive and evidence-based information to nursing educators, researchers, and policy-makers. The book presents a wealth of new information that expands upon the rural nursing theory base and greatly adds to our understanding of current rural health care issues. It retains seminal chapters that consider theory and practice, client and cultural perspectives, response to illness, and community roles in sustaining good health. Authored by contributors from the United States, Canada, and Australia, the text examines rural health issues from a national and international perspective.
The 4th edition presents new chapters on:
Border health issues
Palliative care
Research applications of rural nursing theory
Resilience in rural elders
Vulnerabilities
Health disparities
Social disparities in health
Use of rural hospitals in nursing education
Establishing nursing education following disaster
Public health accreditation in rural and frontier counties
Oral health
Developing the workforce to meet the needs for rural practice, research, and theory development
Key Features:
Provides a single-source reference on rural nursing concepts, theory, and practice
Covers critical issues regarding nursing practice in sparsely populated regions
Presents a national and international focus
Updates content and includes a wealth of new information
Designed for nurse educators and students at the graduate level
The 4th edition presents new chapters on:
Border health issues
Palliative care
Research applications of rural nursing theory
Resilience in rural elders
Vulnerabilities
Health disparities
Social disparities in health
Use of rural hospitals in nursing education
Establishing nursing education following disaster
Public health accreditation in rural and frontier counties
Oral health
Developing the workforce to meet the needs for rural practice, research, and theory development
Key Features:
Provides a single-source reference on rural nursing concepts, theory, and practice
Covers critical issues regarding nursing practice in sparsely populated regions
Presents a national and international focus
Updates content and includes a wealth of new information
Designed for nurse educators and students at the graduate level
More details
Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-0-8261-7085-9 (9780826170859)
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Charlene A. Winters, PhD, ACNS-BC, is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at Montana State University-Bozeman, Missoula Campus. She serves as Project Director for the Clinical Nurse Leader graduate option. Dr. Winters teaches the rural health course in the graduate program. Her research interests are illness uncertainty, adaptation and chronic illness self-management, and rural nursing theory development. She is an active member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Western Institute of Nursing, Montana Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Sigma Theta Tau International, Rural Nurse Organization, Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, and charter member of the International Council of Nursing-Rural and Remote Nurses Network. Dr. Winters holds a doctorate in nursing from Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, and a bachelor and master of science degrees in nursing from California State University, Long Beach.