Community & Public Health Nursing is designed to provide students a basic grounding in public health nursing principles while emphasizing aggregate-level nursing. While weaving in meaningful examples from practice throughout the text, the authors coach students on how to navigate between conceptualizing about a population-focus while also continuing to advocate and care for individuals, families, and aggregates. This student-friendly, highly illustrated text engages students, and by doing so, eases students into readily applying public health principles along with evidence-based practice, nursing science, and skills that promote health, prevent disease, as well as protect at-risk populations! What the 8th edition of this text does best is assist students in broadening the base of their knowledge and skills that they can employ in both the community and acute care settings, while the newly enhanced ancillary resources offers interactive tools that allow students of all learning styles to master public health nursing.

Unit I: Foundations of Community Health Nursing
Ch 1: The Journey Begins: Introduction to Community Health Nursing

Ch 2: History & Evolution of Community Health Nursing

Ch 3: Setting the Stage for Community Health Nursing

Ch 4: Evidence-Based Practice and Ethics in Community Health Nursing

Ch 5 Transcultural Nursing in the Community
Unit II: Public Health Essentials for Community Health Nursing
Ch 6: Structure & Economics of Community Health Services

Ch 7: Epidemiology in Community Health Care

Ch 8: Communicable Disease Control

Ch 9: Environmental Health and Safety
Unit III: Community Health Nursing Toolbox
Ch 10: Communication, Collaboration, and Contracting

Ch 11: Health Promotion: Achieving Change Through Education

Ch 12: Planning and Developing Community Programs and Services

Ch 13: Policy Making and Community Health Advocacy
Unit IV: The Community as Client
Ch 14: Theoretical Basis for Community Health Nursing

Ch 15: Community as Client: Applying the Nursing Process

Ch 16: Global Health & International Community Health Nursing

Ch 17: Being Prepared: Disasters and Terrorism
Unit V: The Family as Client
Ch 18: Theoretical Basis for Promoting Family Health

Ch 19: Working with Families: Applying the Nursing Process

Ch 20: Violence Affecting Families
Unit VI: Promoting and Protecting the Health of Aggregates with Developmental Needs
Ch 21: Maternal-Child Health: Working with Perinatal, Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Clients

Ch 22: School-Aged Children and Adolescents

Ch 23: Adult Women and Men

Ch 24: Older Adults: Aging in Place
Unit VII: Promoting and Protecting the Health of Vulnerable Populations
Ch 25: Working with Vulnerable People

Ch 26: Clients with Disabilities and Chronic Illness (+ injury prevention)

Ch 27: Behavioral Health in the Community

Ch 28: Working With the Homeless

Ch 29: Issues with Rural, Migrant, and Urban Health Care

Unit VIII: Settings for Community Health Nursing

Ch 30: Public Settings for Community Health Nursing

Ch 31: Private Settings for Community Health Nursing

Ch 32: Clients Receiving Home Health and Hospice Care