Community-Based Nursing Care: Making the Transition

By Martha Ayers, Rae W. Langford, Audrei A. Bruno, et al.

Community-Based Nursing Care: Making the Transitionpresents information about providing direct nursing care to clients in community settings. It covers the many community settings in which nurses provide care, including the home, clinics, schools, shelters, and residential centres. Separate chapters on the care of clients in pediatric, adult, and elderly developmental stages are provided, as well as a separate chapter on maternal-infant clients that stresses the community care that pregnant women and newborns need. Detailed nursing care for major health disorders such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease is discussed including important information about the assessment and treatment of clients with these disorders.

* Written in an easily understood conversational style to facilitate student comprehension. * Offers learning objectives for each chapter as an overview of chapter content. * Provides key terms with definitions to highlight important terminology. * Contains student quotes for student commentary on each chapter. * Features resources boxes and suggested readings lists that provide additional sources of chapter information and promote further study. * Includes key points that summarize important chapter information to aid in student review. * Presents critical thinking questions that promote problem-solving abilities and challenge reasoning skills. * Includes application exercises that provide practical learning activities to challenge students to apply chapter material outside the classroom. * Provides assessment boxes that present how-to information to assess clients for specific disorders. * Incorporates case studies that present "real-life" clinical community situations. * Details specific nursing assessment and treatment information for many major illnesses, such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, which are essential components of community-based nursing. * Devotes separate chapters to the pediatric, adult, and elderly developmental stages, stressing the unique issues related to nursing care for these populations. * Includes a separate chapter on nursing care for maternal-infant clients, who are often seen only in community settings. * Features a separate chapter on clients with mental health disorders, a population prevalent in community-based settings, that emphasizes the unique matters related to care of clients with these disorders. * Includes a separate chapter devoted to legal and ethical considerations related to community-based nursing. * Incorporates a two-color design throughout, helping highlight key information and providing a user-friendly resource for students.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815113390
• ISBN13: 9780815113393
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Community-Based Nursing Care:Making The Transition

I have worked in home care for 8+ years and have the reponsibility to precept new nurses entering the environment of community nursing. I have utilized many books during precepting but have found the above book to be superior to others and a valuable resource tool to assist new employees with the transition from the acute, SNF, or doctors office to Community Based Nursing.