Give your students a complete guide to community health nursing! Community/Public Health Nursing, 7th Edition provides a unique, upstream preventive focus and a strong social justice approach, all in a concise, easy-to-read text. Covering the nurses’ role in promoting community health, it shows how students can take an active role in social action and health policy – emphasizing society’s responsibility to protect all human life and ensuring that diverse and vulnerable populations have their basic health needs met. Clinical examples and photo novellas show how nursing concepts apply to the real world. Written by community health nursing experts Mary A. Nies and Melanie McEwen, this book describes the issues and responsibilities of today’s community and public health nurse.
UNIQUE! A ‘social justice’ approach promotes health for all people, including vulnerable populations.
UNIQUE! ‘Upstream’ preventive focus addresses factors that are the precursors to poor health in the community, addressing potential health problems before they occur.
Case Studies present the theory, concepts, and application of the nursing process in practical and manageable examples.
Enhance your clinical decision-making capabilities and improve patient outcomes through evidence-based practice.
Develop the skills and knowledge you need to make evidence-based practice (EBP) an integral part of your clinical decision-making and everyday nursing practice with this proven, approachable text. Written in a straightforward, conversational style, Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare delivers real-world examples and meaningful strategies in every chapter to help you confidently meet today’s clinical challenges and ensure positive patient outcomes.
New Making Connections: An EBP Exemplar opens each unit, immersing you in an unfolding case study of EBP in real-life practice.
New Chapters reflect the most current implications of EBP on health policy and the context, content, and outcomes of implementing EBP competencies in clinical and academic settings.
New Learning objectives and EBP Terms to Learn at both the unit and chapter levels help you study efficiently and stay focused on essential concepts and vocabulary.
Making EBP Real features continue to end each unit with real-world examples that demonstrate the principles of EBP applied.
EBP Fast Facts reinforce key points at a glance.
Clinical Scenarios clarify the EBP process and enhance your rapid appraisal capabilities.
– NEW! Revised, refocused, and streamlined content throughout to better address the needs of consumers of research for evidence-based clinical practice.
– NEW! All-new research examples and Research Vignettes have been added throughout to demonstrate the most current high-quality published studies, and to exemplify the work on prominent nurse-researchers.
– NEW! Content on mixed-methods research along with secondary analysis has been added to the chapter on nonexperimental designs.
– NEW! Expanded coverage of systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines addresses these important aspects of research.
– UNIQUE! Integration of interprofessional education concepts and activities addresses the growing interest in interprofessional education and interprofessional collaborative practice.
– NEW! Enhanced readability and navigation tools make it easier for you to locate, understand, and retain information in the text.
Master content from the textbook with this helpful study tool! Designed to accompany Murray’s Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women’s Health Nursing, 5th Edition, this workbook will assist students in understanding and applying material from each chapter in the text.
