Rural Nursing: Concepts, Theory, and Practice 4th Edition

The fourth edition of the only text to focus on nursing concepts, theory, and practice in rural settings continues to provide comprehensive and evidence-based information to nursing educators, researchers, and policy-makers. The book presents a wealth of new information that expands upon the rural nursing theory base and greatly adds to our understanding of current rural health care issues. It retains seminal chapters that consider theory and practice, client and cultural perspectives, response to illness, and community roles in sustaining good health. Authored by contributors from the United States, Canada, and Australia, the text examines rural health issues from a national and international perspective.

The 4th edition presents new chapters on:

• Border health issues
• Palliative care
• Research applications of rural nursing theory
• Resilience in rural elders
• Vulnerabilities
• Health disparities
• Social disparities in health
• Use of rural hospitals in nursing education
• Establishing nursing education following disaster
• Public health accreditation in rural and frontier counties
• Developing the workforce to meet the needs for rural practice, research, and theory development Key Features:
  • Provides a single-source reference on rural nursing concepts, theory, and practice
  • Covers critical issues regarding nursing practice in sparsely populated regions
  • Presents a national and international focus
  • Updates content and includes a wealth of new information
  • Designed for nurse educators and students at the graduate level “

Charlene A. Winters, PhD, ACNS-BC, is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at Montana State University-Bozeman, Missoula Campus. She serves as Project Director for the Clinical Nurse Leader graduate option. Dr. Winters teaches the rural health course in the graduate program. Her research interests are illness uncertainty, adaptation and chronic illness self-management, and rural nursing theory development. She is an active member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Western Institute of Nursing, Montana Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Sigma Theta Tau International, Rural Nurse Organization, Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, and charter member of the International Council of Nursing-Rural and Remote Nurses Network. Dr. Winters holds a doctorate in nursing from Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, and a bachelor and master of science degrees in nursing from California State University, Long Beach.