Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unit I: Foundations of community health nursing -- The journey begins: introduction to community health nursing /. Cherie Rector -- History and evolution of community health nursing /. Kristine D. Warner -- Setting the stage for community health nursing /. Kristine D. Warner -- Evidence-based practice and ethics in community health nursing /. Cherie Rector -- Transcultural nursing in the community /. Cherie Rector --

Unit II: Public health essentials for community health nursing -- Structure and economics of community health services /. Cherie Rector -- Epidemiology in community health care /. Kristine D. Warner -- Communicable disease control /. Karen Smith-Sayer -- Environmental health and safety /. Kristine D. Warner --

Unit III: Community health nursing toolbox -- Communication, collaboration, and contracting /. Cherie Rector -- Health promotion: achieving change through education /. Kristine D. Warner and Debra Millar -- Planning and developing community programs and services /. Mary E. Summers and Kristine D. Warner -- Policy making and community health advocacy /. Lydia C. Bourne --

Unit IV: The community as client -- Theoretical basis of community health nursing /. Kristine D. Warner and Karin Lightfoot -- Community as client: applying the nursing process /. Filomela A. Marshall -- Global health and international community health nursing /. Marie P. Farrell -- Being prepared: disasters and terrorism /. Kristine D. Warner and Sheila Hoban --

Unit V: The family as client -- Theoretical bases for promoting family health /. Kathleen Riley-Lawless -- Working with families: applying the nursing process /. Phyllis G. Salopek -- Violence affecting families /. Sheila M. Holcomb --

Unit VI: Promoting and protecting the health of aggregates with developmental needs -- Maternal--child health: working with perinatal, infant, toddler, and preschool clients /. Cherie Rector -- School-age children and adolescents /. Cherie Rector -- Adult women and men /. Barbara J. Blake and Gloria Ann Jones Taylor -- Older adults: aging in place /. Frances Wilson and Cherie Rector --

Unit VII: Promoting and protecting the health of vulnerable populations -- Working with vulnerable people /. Cherie Rector -- Clients with disabilities and chronic illnesses /. Kristine D. Warner -- Behavioral health in the community /. Elizabeth M. Andal and Christine L. Savage -- Working with the homeless /. Mary Lashley -- Issues with rural, migrant, and urban health care /. Margaret Avila and Cherie Rector --

Unit VIII: Settings for community health nursing -- Public settings for community health nursing /. Erin D. Maughan -- Private settings for community health nursing /. Mary Ellen Miller and Rose Utley -- Clients receiving home health and hospice care /. Joyce Zerwekh.

All age.