Publisher's Synopsis
A supplemental text for community health nursing courses. This edition utilizes the community as partner model as well as a nursing process framework to present principles and functions that are basic to community health nursing. With six additional chapters included in this edition, it demonstrates how the community as partner model has been used in various communitites throughout the world. Chapters also cover: primary health care; ethics and community health - an advocacy approach; and cultural competence in partnership with communities.