Public Health Nursing

Public Health Nursing is an essential resource for all health visiting students, school nursing students, and occupational health nursing students, that reflects the current key changes in community public health nursing. It is a key textbook for specialist practitioner programmes, and those new to the public health arena. Written by relevant experts in the field, this practical textbook uniquely explores the three main specialties of Public Health Nursing: Health Visiting, School Nursing and Occupational Health Nursing. A particular strength of the book is the way it shows the diversity of each discipline and how they each address Public Health in vastly different ways according to the needs of their relevant population. This will be essential reading for all students on the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) programmes offered across the UK. Key features: * Focuses on the specialist community public health nursing part of the NMC register * Multidisciplinary, with contributors from all three specialisms * Concerned with improving the health of the population, rather than treating the diseases of individual patients * Focuses on practice and competencies

ISBN 1405180072   Pages 256 ISBN13 9781405180078 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 464 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Published in Chicester Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Height (mm) 245 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 175 Publication date 29 Jul 2009   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY 610.7343   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Foreword by Ingrid Callwood and Woody Caan and Anne Harriss
1		What Is Public Health? by Cecile Knai		1
2		Public Health Nursing by Gill Coverdale		21
3		Theoretical Perspectives of Health Visiting by Faith Muir and Paul Reynolds		46
4		Health Visiting in Practice by Faith Muir and Paul Reynolds		74
5		The Development of School Nursing by Mary Smith and Sarah Sherwin		100
6		School Nursing and School Health Practice by Sarah Sherwin and Mary Smith		126
7		What Is Occupational Health? by Greta Thornbory		153
8		Occupational Health Nursing Practice by Greta Thornbory		177
9		Education and Continuing Professional Development of Public Health Nurses by Rebecca Elliott		204
		Appendix		227
		Index		229

"The book is unique in that it provides current information about three SCPHN fields in one text. It will be invaluable to those wishing to explore the role of nursing in public health. Greta Thornbory has selected her authors with care. It is immediately obvious not only that the authors are experts, but also that they are passionate about their own field of practice. Learning objectives and activity boxes provide continuity and useful points for readers to stop for reflection and confirmation of learning." (Nursing Standard, May 2010) "This is an excellent 'state-of-the-art' book that reflects the most up-to-date thinking" (Occupational Health, September 2009)

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