Basic Community Health Nursing

The community health nurse working mainly outside a hospital in a community service is usually a specialised worker in a specific area such as a school, occupational health (a factory) or psychiatric nursing services. This title has been written for the trainee community health nurse, but may be successfully used by the practitioner as it provides a wide variety of practical guidelines for the day-to-day running of a community health clinic. Throughout the title the emphasis is on the practical functioning of the health practitioner within the clinic and the various roles which the community health practitioners have to fulfill are highlighted, namely the preventative, managing, teaching and research functions.