<p>Focusing on practical, need-to-know information, <b>Community/Public Health Nursing Practice</b> helps you learn how to apply the nursing process at the community and family level. It features an engaging, easy-to-understand writing style, as well as assessment tools, detailed case studies, and clinical examples that demonstrate how key concepts apply to real-world practice. Additional resources on the companion Evolve website expand and enhance content within the text.</p><br><br><ul><br><ul></ul><li><b>Practical features</b> including <i>Case Studies, Ethics in Practice, </i>and<i> The Nursing Process in Practice</i> illustrate real-world applications of key community/public health nursing concepts.</li><li><b>A complete unit on the community as client </b>helps you understand how the assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation steps of the nursing process apply to the community, as opposed to an individual. </li><li><b>A chapter devoted to community assessment</b> provides a complete assessment tool and shows you how the tool applies to two different types of communities. </li><li><b>UNIQUE! </b>A chapter on <b>screening and referral promotes population-focused practice,</b> which is the crux of community/public health nursing.</li><li><b>A separate unit on the family</b> emphasizes the importance of viewing the family as a singular client.</li><li><b>A complete discussion of the Minnesota Wheel</b> helps you better understand this widely-accepted framework for community/public health nursing practice.</li><li><b>Helpful sections</b> such as <i>Focus Questions, Chapter Outlines, Key Ideas, </i>and<i> Learning by Experience and Reflection</i> help you pinpoint essential information.</li></ul><br><br><ul><li><b>NEW! <i>Healthy People 2020</i> objectives</b> throughout the text help you identify common health risk factors in populations and families. </li><li><b>NEW! Coverage of health care reform, </b>including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA),<b> </b>explores how current health care legislation impacts community/public health nursing.</li><li><b>NEW!</b> <b>Discussions of community health "hot button" issues,</b> such as human trafficking, genital circumcision, and bullying, introduce you to today's health care challenges.</li><li><b>NEW!</b> <b>Information on weather-related disaster fatalities, bioterrorism, and national and state planning responses</b> familiarize you with current, relevant issues which affect the health of populations worldwide and shape the role of the community/public health nurse.</li></ul>