Nursing for Public Health

Promotion, Principles, and Practice
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-956108-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 193 mm x 264 mm, Gewicht: 757 g

Nursing for Public Health: Promotion, Principles and Practice is an essential resource which reflects the growing need for all nurses to maintain and improve health as well as treating illnesses. This book takes as its starting point that the aims of public health and health promotion are key components of the nursing role and daily nursing care. Writing in a clear and lively style, the authors provide both an academic and practical account of public health for all nursing practice.

Beginning with the question 'what is the public health agenda and why does it matter?' the book examines and critiques core policies, theories, and models in healthcare. The role of the nurse in improving health is explored in the context of the scope of nursing practice and working with patients and interprofessional colleagues. Key nursing skills of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care are outlined before the authors demonstrate how nurses can make important interventions on health issues such as mental health, obesity, sexual health, smoking, alcohol and long term conditions.

Written as a core undergraduate course book this text is key reading for all pre registration nursing students who need to understand what public health means to nursing and need the skills required for all nurses practicing in the 21st century. Students on post registration courses will find this to be a helpful introduction.

Online material

· Current web links and regular updates.

· RSS feeds from organisations such as the NMC, DOH, NICE, UK Public Health Institute and more.
· Checklists for patient assessments and interviews.
· Web links to existing health promotion interventions on key clinical topics, which have been developed elsewhere.

· Podcasts (not yet firm).

Zielgruppe

This is an essential resource for all pre-registration nursing students, those on post graduate courses, as well as newly qualified staff and mentors in all fields of nursing, throughout the UK and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Linsley, Paul

Kane, Roslyn

Owen, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part 1: What is the new public health agenda and why does it matter?

- 1: Sara Owen and Ruth Reilly: The context and direction of health care

- 2: Laura Serrant-Green: Influences on health and the causes of ill health across the lifespan

- 3: Paul Linsley: Health promotion theory

- Part 2: Delivering public health: The role of nurses in the delivery of the new public health agenda

- 4: Rachael Spencer: The changing role of the nurse

- 5: Nigel Horner and Trevor Simpson: Inter-professional practice and education in health and social care

- 6: John McKinnon: The Nurse patient relationship

- 7: Sonia Budgen: Accessing and using information in clinical practice

- 8: Abigail Masterson: The importance of nursing to public health: the political and policy context

- Part 3: Key skills for nurses delivering the new public health agenda

- 9: Maria Joyce, Tracy Pilcher and Dianne Ramm: Health needs assessment: caring for the individual and the population

- 10: Grace Spencer: Planning interventions: meeting the needs of individuals and communities

- 11: Ian Loveday: Implementing interventions: delivering care to individuals and communities

- 12: Niro Siriwardena: Evaluating interventions: focusing on measuring impact at both the individual and community level

- Part 4: Key areas of health needs

- 13: Vicki Linsley: Smoking and smoking cessation

- 14: Roslyn Kane and Ruth Reilly: Tackling health inequalities

- 15: Alison Mostyn and Dilip Nathan: Tackling obesity

- 16: Sheena MacRae and Jill Ladlow: Improving sexual health

- 17: Paul Linsley and John Hurley: Mental health

- 18: Damian Mitchell and Iain Armstrong: Alcohol: reducing harm

- 19: Sian Maslin-Prothero and Andrew Finney: Long-term conditions

- 20: Paul Linsey, Ros Kane and Sara Owen: The future of public health nursing: challenges and debates

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Linsley is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln. Paul is registered as a Clinical Specialist in Acute Psychiatry and is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. He teaches on research masters programmes as well as pre and post registration nurse training programmes. He has written on and has an interest in acute mental health and health informatics.

Roslyn Kane is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln. After working for some years as a nurse in women's health, she worked for ten years in the Department of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she did her PhD. She has worked on many research projects, mainly around sexual and reproductive health, teenage pregnancy and service evaluation.

Sara Owen is Professor of Nursing and Dean of the Faculty of Health, Life and Social Sciences at the University of Lincoln. She has research interests in women and mental health, workforce issues, and evaluation of education and training.