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Community Nursing Practice: Theory, Skills and Issues
by Winsome St. John, Helen Keleher. 431 pgs.

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Tables and Figures

About the Authors

Preface

Part I: Theoretical Foundations for Community Nursing Practice

1: Context and Roles in Community Nursing Practice

2: Social Perspectives on Health

3: Population Health Issues in Australia

4: Historical Nursing Responses to Community Health Needs in Australia

Part II: Approaches in Community Nursing Practice

5: Community Assessment for Health

6: Epidemiology

7: Health Screening

8: Health Promotion

9: Health Teaching

10: Community Development in Health

11: Research and Evidence for Community Nursing Practice

Part III: Practice in the Community

12: Community Projects and Program Planning

13: Home Visiting

14: Working with Families

15: Working with Community Groups

16: Working in a Cross-Cultural Setting

17: Working in a Community-Based Organisation

Part IV: Issues in Community Nursing Practice

18: Self-Management and Professional Development in Community Practice

19: Advocacy and Empowerment in Community Practice

20: Professional Issues in Community Practice

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Developing Community Nursing Practice
by Sue Spencer, John Unsworth, Wendy Burke. 200 pgs.

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part I: Triggering the Development of Practice

1: Developing Primary Care

2: Evidence for Development

Part II: The Process of Developing Practice

3: Managing the Development of Practice

4: Concepts of Risk in the Development of Practice

5: Education for Change

Part III: Key Issues When Developing Practice

6: Can You Feel the Force? the Importance of Power in Practice Development

7: It Ain't What You Do, It's the Way That You Do It

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Explorations in Family Nursing (Chap. 12 "Families in Transition: A Community Nursing Perspective")
by Dorothy A. Whyte. 228 pgs.

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Chapter 1: Family Nursing

Chapter 2: The Family

Chapter 3: Coping with Transitions

Chapter 4: Chronic Illness in Childhood

Chapter 5: The Terminally Ill Child

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Chapter 6: Family Systems Nursing

References

Chapter 7: A Systemic Approach to Supporting the Families of Children with Learning Disabilities

Chapter 8: Family Nursing in Intensive Care

Chapter 9: Intrafamilial Sexual Abuse

Chapter 10: Vulnerable Families

Chapter 11: Family Nursing with Elderly People

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Chapter 12: Families in Transition

Chapter 13: Reflections on Family Nursing

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Mental Health Work in the Community: Theory and Practice in Social Work and Community Psychiatric Nursing
by Michael Sheppard. 204 pgs.

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations

Chapter 3: Agency Work

Chapter 4: Brief Intervention

Chapter 5: Extended Intervention

Chapter 6: Practice Foundations: Interpersonal Relations

Chapter 7: Clients’ and Workers’ Views of Intervention

Chapter 8: Client Perceptions: Brief Intervention

Chapter 9: Client Perceptions: Extended Intervention

Chapter 10: Conclusions

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Appendix 2

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Community and Nurse-Managed Health Centers: Getting Them Started and Keeping Them Going
by Donna L. Torrisi, Tine Hansen-Turton. 152 pgs.

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1: Introduction

2: Organizational Development

3: Initial Planning

4: Ongoing Planning

5: Funding

6: Financial Operations

7: Policies and Procedures

8: Continuous Quality/Performance Improvement

9: Information Systems

Appendix A: Start-Up Tool Kit a Governing Board Bylaws

Appendix B: Sample Mission Statement

Appendix C: Sample Strategic Planning Policy

Appendix D: Sample Strategic Plan

Appendix E: Sample Health Care Plan

Appendix F: Sample Business Plan

Appendix G: Sample of a Contract with a Local Agency

Appendix H: Funding Sources

Appendix I: Sample Policy and Procedure Manual

Appendix J: Sample Physician Collaborative Agreement

Appendix K: Sample Nurse Practitioner—collaborative Physician Practice Agreement

Appendix L: Sample Job Descriptions

Appendix M: Summary of Hipaa Requirements and Procedures

Appendix N: Sample Performance Improvement Plan: Assessing Outcomes

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Health Policy in the Market State ("Primary Health Care as a Focus of Generalist Community Nursing" begins on p. 176)
by Linda Hancock. 345 pgs.

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"Introduces the major issues in health policy in Australia, setting them in the broader public policy context."

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1: Rights and Markets: What Makes Sustainable Health Policy?

I: Analysing Health Policy

2: Policy, Power and Interests

3: Health, Public Sector Restructuring and the Market State

II: Financing Health

4: Commonwealth/state Relations in Health

5: Health Care Funding and Rationing Health Care

6: Consumer Payments for Health Care

III: Market State Reform Agendas

7: Casemix: Financing Hospital Services

8: Contracting out in the Health Sector

9: Shifts in Community Health Care

IV: Catering for the Diversity of Health Care Needs and Interests

10: Performance Indicators for Aboriginal Health Services

11: Women's Health in a Changing State

12: Health Indicators for Diversity

13: Shifts in Mental Health Policy

14: Caring and the State

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Economics and Australian Health Policy

Qualitative Research in Health: An Introduction
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When It Works: Learning Community Health Nursing Concepts from Clinical Experience, in Nursing Education Perspectives
by Kathie Lasater, Linda Luce, Miriam Volpin, Allison Terwilliger, Jackson Wild. 5 pgs.

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A Qualitative Case Study Review of Role Transition in Community Nursing, in Nursing Forum
by Joyce Zurmehly. 9 pgs.

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A Community Nursing Center for the Health Promotion of Senior Citizens Based on the Neuman Systems Model, in Nursing Education Perspectives
by Diana M. L Newman. 3 pgs.

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The Population-Focused Analysis Project for Teaching Community Health, in Nursing Education Perspectives
by Phyllis J. Eide, Laura Hahn, Tina Bayne, Carol B. Allen, Deborah Swain. 6 pgs.

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