Community/Public Health Nursing

• Active Learning boxes test your knowledge of the content you’ve just read, helping provide clinical application and knowledge retention
• UNIQUE! Social justice approach promotes health for all people, emphasizing society’s responsibility to protect all human life and ensure that all people have their basic needs met, such as adequate health protection
• UNIQUE! Veterans’ Health chapter presents situations and considerations unique to the care of military veterans
• Genetics in Public Health boxes reflect increasing scientific evidence supporting the health benefits of using genetic tests and family health history to guide public health interventions
• UNIQUE! "Upstream" focus addresses contributing factors of poor health and promotes community efforts to address potential health problems before they occur
• Case studies present the theory, concepts, and application of the nursing process in practical and manageable examples
• UNIQUE! Photo novellas — stories in photograph form — show real-life clinical scenarios and highlight the application of important community/public health nursing roles
• Consistent pedagogy at the beginning of each chapter includes learning objectives, key terms and chapter outlines to help you locate important information and focus your study time
• Clinical Examples present snippets of real-life client situations
• Theoretical frameworks common to nursing and public health aid in the application of familiar and new theory bases to problems and challenges in the community
• Research Highlights introduce you to the growing amount of community/public health nursing research literature
• Ethical Insights boxes present situations of ethical dilemmas or considerations pertinent to select chapter topics

Students in community health nursing courses in baccalaureate and RN-to-BSN programs