Community Nursing and Health Care: Insights and Innovations

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Community Nursing and Health Care: Insights and Innovations

Hyde, V.Arnold Publishers2001ISBN 0 340 76011 7

All new nurse qualifying programmes (diploma and degree) have a community nursing module, as well as a variety of post-registration courses. There have also been fundamental changes in the ways that community nurses practise, and in the structures that facilitate practice delivery. Community Nursing and Health Care explains the various factors that are driving the changes,enabling newly qualified nurses to become key players in the direction and practice of community nursing. The text is divided into four sections. The first outlines aspects of the NHS new agenda in community care such as nursing management, the public health agenda, health needs assessment, community care for individuals with mental health problems. The second section concentrates on partnerships in care, community nurses and informal carers, care management,formal and informal influences in community nursing. Following on from this,challenges for community nursing such as professional development, extended roles in the community and ethical and legal considerations are looked at. Finally, the fourth section, Community nurses – new NHS? New identity?,focuses on the effect of current political thought on the role of nurses.