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The community/public health nurse is charged with promoting the health of populations, not only the individuals within populations. This requires advocacy on the part of the nurse, for entire communities as well as for the individuals within. The fifth edition of Community Health Nursing by respected leader and educator Mary Jo Clark approaches community health nursing from an aggregate perspective, clearly showing how nurses can serve to improve the health of populations within a community by functioning as advocates on many levels. To illustrate how that can be manifested, real-life vignettes begin every chapter, showing students what advocacy looks like in the public health context. In each chapter, critical thinking exercises are woven throughout in boxed features.
Table of Contents
Clark, Community Health Nursing: Advocating for Healthy Populations, 5e
Table of Contents
Unit I The Context for Community Health Nursing
Chapter 1 Community Health Nursing as Advocacy
Chapter 2 The Population Context
Chapter 3 The Historical Context
Chapter 4 The Theoretical Context
Chapter 5 The Health System Context
Chapter 6 The Global Health Context ****NEW CHAPTER****
Chapter 7 The Political Context
Chapter 8 The Economic Context
Chapter 9 The Cultural Context
Chapter 10 The Environmental Context
Unit II Approaches to Community Health Nursing
Chapter 11 Health Promotion
Chapter 12 Case Management
Chapter 13 Community Empowerment ****NEW CHAPTER****
Unit III Care of Special Populations
Chapter 14 Care of Families
Chapter 15 Care of Communities
Chapter 16 Meeting the Health Needs of Child and Adolescent Populations
Chapter 17 Meeting the Health Needs of Women
Chapter 18 Meeting the Health Needs of Men
Chapter 19 Meeting the Health Needs of Older Clients
Chapter 20 Meeting the Health Needs of Poor and Homeless Populations
Unit IV Care of Populations in Specialized Settings
Chapter 21 Care of Clients in the Home Setting
Chapter 22 Care of Clients in Official and Voluntary Health Agencies
Chapter 23 Care of Clients in the School Setting
Chapter 24 Care of Clients in Work Settings
Chapter 25 Care of Clients in Urban and Rural Settings
Chapter 26 Care of Clients in Correctional Settings
Chapter 27 Care of Clients in Disaster Settings
Unit V Population Health Issues
Chapter 28 Communicable Diseases
Chapter 29 Chronic Disease
Chapter 30 Community Mental Health
Chapter 31 Substance Abuse
Chapter 32 Societal Violence
Appendices
Appendix A Quad Council PHN Competencies
Appendix B Information on Selected Communicable Diseases
Appendix C Selected Cultural Beliefs, Behaviors, and Practices
Appendix D Nursing Interventions for Common Health Problems in Children and Adolescents
About the Author
Mary Jo Clark, PhD, RN, PHN has been practicing and teaching community health nursing for 40 years. After completing her BSN degree at the University of San Francisco, she received her introduction to global community health nursing as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Vita, India, a rural town with a population of about 3,000. Returning to the United States, Dr. Clark employed her cross-cultural expertise as a Public Health Nurses in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. In 1973, she became a pediatric nurse practitioner, and later began teaching community health nursing at East Tennessee State University. She completed a masters degree in community health nursing at Texas Women’s University and a PhD in nursing at the University of Texas at Austin. Moving with her Army nurse husband to Augusta, Georgia, she taught graduate and undergraduate community health at the Medical College of Georgia. For the past 20 years, Dr. Clark has taught at baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral levels at the University of San Diego, Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science. In addition to her full-time teaching and writing, Dr. Clark has maintained an active community health nursing practice. She is well known in the community health nursing field and has provided consultation and made presentations across the country and overseas. Her many and varied experiences in community health nursing in the United States and abroad form the core of the material presented in this book.
