Community as partner : theory and practice in nursing / Elizabeth T. Anderson and Judith M. McFarlane

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The world as community: globalization and health -- Community health nursing: essentials of practice -- Epidemiology, demography, and community health -- Environment and the health of communities -- Ethical quandaries in community health nursing -- Community empowerment -- Cultural competence: discussion and tools for action -- Partnering with communities for healthy public policy -- Informatics and community health nursing -- Preventing and managing community emergencies: disasters and infectious diseases -- Community assessment: using a model for practice -- Community analysis and nursing diagnosis -- Planning a community health program -- Implementing a community health program -- Evaluating a community health program -- Promoting healthy partnerships with school communities -- Promoting healthy partnerships with faith communities -- Promoting healthy partnerships with marginalized groups -- Promoting healthy partnerships in the workplace -- Promoting healthy partnerships with community elders -- Promoting healthy partnerships with rural communities.

Community As Partner: Theory and Practice in Nursing, 8th Edition offers a foundational overview of the concepts of epidemiology, environment, culture, ethics, empowerment, health policy, informatics, bioterrorism, and emerging infectious diseases as they relate to community health. Authors and theorists Dr. Anderson and Dr. McFarlane of the Community As Partner Model arm students with the "how to" knowledge they need to apply the nursing process to an entire community, and take readers through the entire nursing process with a real-life community as an example! Anderson offers a handbook with practical skills that ACHNE has outlined as essential for generalist nurses, including how to do a community assessment, how to analyze data, how to form a community nursing diagnosis, as well as how to plan, implement, and evaluate a community health program. Community As Partner analyzes the relationship between globalization and health, and inspires students to contribute to the reduction of global health challenges and promoting health for all, including marginalized populations and health promotion in school communities, rural communities, and faith communities. In this edition, instructors will receive PowerPoints enhanced with lecture notes and iClicker questions. These PowerPoints will be developed to serve a dual purpose. You can choose to share the decks with your students to use as self-paced Study Notes and knowledge check multiple choice questions. Our NCLEX style test bank has been revised and enhanced with more questions at the application level and higher"-- "Dr. Anderson and Dr. McFarlane's Community As Partner: Theory and Practice in Nursing, 8th Edition is the best choice for Community and Public Health instructors who want to offer their students a foundational overview of key community and public concepts and then build upon that theoretical foundation through the exploration of the Community As Partner Model, which was designed to show students how the community, environment, health, and nursing intertwine"-