Oxford Handbook of Primary Care and Community Nursing (Oxford Handbooks in Nursing)

Fully updated for its third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Primary Care and Community Nursing is the essential guide to caring for patients in primary care and in community settings. Concise and comprehensive, the book provides the reader with both evidence-based clinical knowledge as well as the organizational structure of community health services. Chapters range from common adult and paediatric health problems, to more specific targeted advice for service users with extra needs and people with long-term conditions. The handbook includes information on how health and social care services are organised and funded, from common technical care procedures to complex situations, alongside detailed aspects of health promotion in adults, children, and adolescents. With new topics on consultation frameworks and models, supporting young people in their transition to the adult services, and female genital mutilation, all clinical guidelines, epidemiology, and statistics have been revised to reflect developments since the previous edition. Providing an accessible and instant resource for everyday nursing, and a benchmark of good practice, the Oxford Handbook of Primary Care and Community Nursing is a unique and invaluable companion for all health care professionals working in the primary care and community setting. "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 Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Preface Acknowledgements Contents Contributors Symbols and abbreviations 1 The context of healthcare 2 Nursing in primary care 3 Quality and safety 4 Approaches to individual health needs assessment 5 Medicines management and nurse prescribing 6 Child health promotion 7 Child and adolescent health 8 Adult health promotion 9 Service users with extra needs 10 Adult care provision 11 Care of adults with long-​term conditions 12 Adult health problems 13 First aid and emergencies 14 Useful information Index This Handbook provides easily accessible, contemporary, and evidence-based material, to act a reference or first point of enquiry for practitioners working in the diverse areas of primary and community care