Oxford handbook of primary care and community nursing / edited by Judy Brook, Caroline McGraw, and Val Thurtle.

Revised edition of: Oxford handbook of primary care and community nursing / edited by Vari Drennan, Claire Goodman. 2nd edition. 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The context of healthcare -- Nursing in primary care -- Quality and safety -- Approaches to individual health needs assessment -- Medicines management and nurse prescribing -- Child health promotion -- Child and adolescent health -- Adult health promotion -- Service users with extra needs -- Adult care provision -- Care of adults with long-term conditions -- Adult health problems -- First aid and emergencies -- Useful information.

"Primary care and community nurses carry out vital work to support the health of individuals and communities. Unlike nurses working in secondary care settings, primary care and community nurses may work alone or in small teams, in a variety of settings such as people's homes, community buildings, GP surgeries or community hospitals. These nurses include practice nurses, health visitors, school nurses, district nurses, community children's nurses, occupational health nurses, community sexual health nurses and specialist nurse practitioners. In their different roles, they address a wide variety of health issues ranging from the public health needs of specific community groups, to the individual needs of patients with a long term condition who attend clinic appointments, requiring them to take both preventative and reactive approaches to health and illness. Nurs-es work in the community carry out a wide range of vital work with clients, patients and communities at all stages of their lives. This book offers a valuable resource for nurses that cuts across traditional community roles and settings. In a landscape of changing health pol-icy, funding, and service configuration, the comprehensive content of this book offers pri-mary care and community nurses access to evi-dence-based information to support them in every-day clinical decision making. The four-teen chapters cover a broad range of condi-tions, preventative care and treatment tech-niques, and offer information about the organi-sational structures that nurses are required to navigate when working in the community. It is written by primary care and community nurses who are specialists in their area of current prac-tice, education and policy development. One of the strengths of the book are the numerous references to sources of further information, ensuring that the content is embedded in a con-temporary context and that accurate broader information can easily be accessed. The book is particularly useful to nurses new to community working but this revised and updated 3rd edi-tion will be a trusted reference source for any nurse working in a community role or setting"-- Provided by publisher.