Review of previous edition:
"An extremely popular and valuable resource to students, practitioners and managers in community health care nursing." Journal of Advanced Nursing

Community Health Care Nursing has become established as an essential source of reference for all those working in the primary care and community health care domain. The Fourth Edition of this successful text focuses on new emergent agendas which affect primary care and public health education and service delivery/improvement.

Comprehensive and accessible, this well established text draws on a wide range of subject experts all aiming for excellence in service delivery, to produce a resource that addresses the key aspects of community health delivery reflecting the reality of the new community/primary care agenda in the United Kingdom. Integrated throughout the book are themes relevant to contemporary community healthcare nursing, including Self Managed Care/Managed Care Pathways, Long Term Conditions, Palliative care and End of Life Care, Urgent and Unscheduled Care, Offender Care, and Continuing/Intermediate Care. The result is a book which focuses on new opportunities for contemporary practice, service delivery/improvement and education response within the context of the modernised primary and public healthcare service

Key features:

* New edition of a well-established and successful text
* Written by experts in the field
* Examines competencies in practice
* Includes evidence-based guidelines and integrates national service framework requirements
* Includes new chapters on Advanced Nursing Practice and competence assessment, modernised primary healthcare workforce and workforce change, Commissioning, and user and public engagement

1. The context of Community Health Care Nursing

2. Social Policy in Public Health & Primary Care

3. The Origins of Contemporary Primary Healthcare

4. Community Development in Public Health & Primary Care

5. Health Needs Assessment, Risk Assessment and Public Health

6. Research Perspectives Applied to Primary Health care

7. Specialist Community Public Health Nursing- Health Visiting

8. General Practice Nursing

9. Contemporary Issues in District Nursing

10. Community Children’s Nursing

11. School Nursing

12. Occupational Health Nursing

13. Community Mental Health Nursing

14. Community Learning Disability Nursing

15. Advanced Nursing Practice in the Community

16. Inter-Professional Practice and Teamwork

17. Measuring the Effectiveness of Community Healthcare Nursing

18. Non Medical Prescribing

19. Specialist Community Public Health Nursing

20. Primary Care Service Provision and Commissioning

21. Inter Professional Practice Teaching and Learning

22. User and Public Involvement