Introduction to Community-Based Nursing » (4th Edition)

Hunt, Roberta , RN, MSPH

This text presents foundational concepts pivotal to delivering nursing care in the community setting, with specific attention to the NLN competencies for community-based nursing care. The author examines the variety of settings and situations in which the community-based nurse provides care, highlighting cultural diversities in the patient populations, and emphasizing interactions between the individual and the family. This edition includes more information on disaster management and communicable diseases and expanded, updated Medicare/Medicaid guidelines.

A companion Website on thePoint will include student activities, assessment guidelines, and forms. Instructors will have access to an Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides, and an expanded testbank.

Mary Ellen Wurzbach

This is an introduction to community-based nursing, which is a hybrid of community health (public health) and home healthcare concepts. The purposes of the book are to give an informative and experiential introduction to nursing care in the community, to illustrate the variety of settings and situations in which the community-based nurse gives care, to clarify the cultural diversification of the community in which nurses provide quality care, and to integrate the importance of the individual to the family and the family to the individual. The book is written simply for beginning students of community-based care. It is based on the content of a course the authors have taught for 13 years. It is well written, with pertinent and current references and a very brief table of contents. The professional appearance of the book is bolstered by numerous unique pedagogical features such as learning activities, client case studies, critical thinking exercises, practical applications, community-based nursing care guidelines, community-based teaching guidelines, research related to community-based practice, and assessment guides. This textbook about community-based nursing care combines concepts of community health nursing and home healthcare nursing. Unfortunately, the book is too short to give more than a superficial explanation of either public health or home health care. It was originally a manual for an actual course and as such the unique features listed above with the simple explanations would be helpful for beginning students. I would recommend the book's purchase, if used with beginning students, emphasizing the case studies and exercises, and supplemented with other texts.