Public Health Nursing: Practicing Population-Based Care (3rd Edition)

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Book Description

Public Health Nursing: Practicing Population-Based Care; 3rd Edition is a comprehensive resource for nursing students and faculty interested in public health education and nursing. The PDF eBook takes a historical perspective in covering the challenges of public health nursing and offers evidence for why things are done the way they are done. The authors accomplish this by providing a world view of various types of clinical experiences and by encouraging a conversation around how to invite the population to be active and engaged in the initiatives which promote public health.

The 3^rd Edition covers the role of nursing in primary health care; the science of population-based care inclusive of epidemiology and social epidemiology; the history of public health nursing; evidence-based practice for population health. In addition; coverage of technology for research; data storage; trend identification; retrieval; as well as technological innovations for educational program delivery to a population and social networking are also featured.

Key Features:

New chapter on the environment
New chapter on the ethics of population-based care
Minnesota Department of Health population-based intervention wheel
Expanded content on disaster preparedness featuring case studies on Hurricane Katrina and the disaster in Haiti
Additional information on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act