Public Health Nursing: A Textbook for Health Visitors, School Nurses and Occupational Health Nurses

Public Health Nursing: A Textbook for Health Visitors, School Nurses and Occupational Health Nurses book cover

Public Health Nursing: A Textbook for Health Visitors, School Nurses and Occupational Health Nurses

Author(s): Greta Thornbory

  • Publisher: WB
  • Publication Date: 7 Aug. 2009
  • Edition: 1st
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 256 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1405180072
  • ISBN-13: 9781405180078

Book Description

Public Health Nursing is an essential resource for all health visiting students, school nursing students, and occupational health nursing students, that reflects the current key changes in community public health nursing.  It is a key textbook for specialist practitioner programmes, and those new to the public health arena.

Written by relevant experts in the field, this practical textbook uniquely explores the three main specialties of Public Health Nursing: Health Visiting, School Nursing and Occupational Health Nursing.  A particular strength of the book is the way it shows the diversity of each discipline and how they each address Public Health in vastly different ways according to the needs of their relevant population.

This will be essential reading for all students on the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) programmes offered across the UK.

Key features:

  • Focuses on the specialist community public health nursing part of the NMC register
  • Multidisciplinary, with contributors from all three specialisms
  • Concerned with improving the health of the population, rather than treating the diseases of individual patients
  • Focuses on practice and competencies

Editorial Reviews

Review

“The book is unique in that it provides current information about three SCPHN fields in one text. It will be invaluable to those wishing to explore the role of nursing in public health. Greta Thornbory has selected her authors with care. It is immediately obvious not only that the authors are experts, but also that they are passionate about their own field of practice. Learning objectives and activity boxes provide continuity and useful points for readers to stop for reflection and confirmation of learning.” (Nursing Standard, May 2010)

“This is an excellent ‘state-of-the-art’ book that reflects the most up-to-date thinking” (Occupational Health, September 2009)

From the Author

Public health nurses care for different populations with health visitors mainly looking after the health of the under fives and their family, school nurses for school age children and occupational health nurses for the men and women at work. This book aims to discuss and demonstrate the diversity of these three specialist nursing roles and to help nurses find some common ground between them. It is the first text book to cater specifically for those new to public health nursing and to offer the history, background, theory and practice of public health nursing in one single text; at the same time it is intended to be readable and to demonstrate theory in practice through case studies in all three disciplines from expert and experienced public health nurses. It is a must for all public health nursing students and would be a valuable asset for student nurses too.

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