This third edition is a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to this essential area of practice. Fully updated to take into account the wide range of nursing roles in the community, it provides an integrated approach to care, with a focus on physical and mental wellbeing.
It covers a wide range of topics, including research and community nursing, public health, professional approaches to care, risk management, safeguarding, therapeutic relationships, care across the lifespan, community nursing assessment, mental health, carers and families, spirituality, leading person-centred care, and digital healthcare.
Incorporating current theory, policy and guidelines for practice, and underpinned by a strong evidence base, each chapter features learning objectives and activities. Case studies and examples from practice serve to illustrate the practical application of theory throughout.
This is an essential text for all pre-registration nursing students, students on post-registration specialist community nursing courses and qualified nurses entering community practice for the first time.
1: Nursing in the community
Sue Chilton
2: Using research to inform evidence-based care
Catherine Henshall and Lee Tomlinson
3: Public health and the promotion of wellbeing
Fiona Baguley and Debbie Wilson
4: Professional approaches to care
Bruce Harper-Ovstebo and Jane Mair
5: Risk identification, mitigation and management
Jayne Murphy and Lisa Clarke
6: Safeguarding
Jen Kirman and Naomi Smith
7: Therapeutic relationships across the lifespan
Elaine Allan, Louise Henderson and Emma Hay-Higgins
8: The lifespan approach
Donna Edwards and Helen Layton
9: Community nursing assessment
Helena Kelly and Sheila Cameron
10: The role of the community nurse in mental health
Roy Litvin and Julie Bliss
11: Informal carers: the unpaid workforce
Mark Millar and Sevim Kaya
12: Spirituality: its place in a holistic approach to care
Ann Clarridge and Alan Gibbon
13: Collaborative working
Susie Gamble and Carol Russell
14: Approaches to acute care
Colette Henderson and Lauren A. Whitton
15: Emerging issues in long term conditions
Shirley Willis, Cathryn Smith and Gina Newbury
16: Providing quality end of life care
Gina King and Matthew Sunter
17: Organisation and management of care
Jill Y. Gould
18: Leading person-centred practice
Caroline A.W. Dickson
19: Digital healthcare
Lesley S. Mills
20: Facing the future
Heather Bain
Biography
Sue Chilton is Senior Lecturer, Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Heather Bain is Associate Head of the Centre for Rural Health Sciences, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK
