Community Nursing Elements - Paperback

by Felipe Reyes (Author)

This book aims to fill a gap in the literature that addresses community nursing, finding in a scattered manner the knowledge needed to raise the quality of community services and for the professional performance of nursing in the humanized art of care and health promotion and prevention for families, individuals and community, Therefore, a compilation of topics of community interest is made for all professionals, teachers and nursing students who have been assigned to work in the community health field, guaranteeing that the contents addressed are structured and that they describe the daily work algorithm that guides the community procedure. The following topics will be addressed: emergence of community nursing, cross-cultural nursing, home visiting, palliative care for patients in the community, communication, health promotion and prevention in the community, synthesis of the theories and models of nursing for community work, accidents in the home.