Public health nursing : a textbook for health visitors, school nurses and occupational health nurses

This textbook explores the background to modern public health and public health nursing based on international and national guidelines. It looks at public health nursing, health visiting, the role of the school nurse and how they meet the public health agenda and the role of the occupational health nurse as a public health practitioner.

Public Health Nursing is an essential resource for all health visiting students, school nursing students, and occupational health nursing students, that reflects the current key changes in community public health nursing. It is a key textbook for specialist practitioner programmes, and those new to the public health arena.

Written by relevant experts in the field, this practical textbook uniquely explores the three main specialties of Public Health Nursing: Health Visiting, School Nursing and Occupational Health Nursing. A particular strength of the book is the way it shows the diversity of each discipline and how they each address Public Health in vastly different ways according to the needs of their relevant population.

This will be essential reading for all students on the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) programmes offered across the UK.

Key features:

• Focuses on the specialist community public health nursing part of the NMC register
• Multidisciplinary, with contributors from all three specialisms
• Concerned with improving the health of the population, rather than treating the diseases of individual patients
• Focuses on practice and competencies

Public Health Nursing is an essential resource for all health visiting students, school nursing students, and occupational health nursing students, that reflects the current key changes in community public health nursing. It is a key textbook for specialist practitioner programmes, and those new to the public health arena. Written by relevant experts in the field, this practical textbook uniquely explores the three main specialties of Public Health Nursing: Health Visiting, School Nursing and Occupational Health Nursing. A particular strength of the book is the way it shows the diversity of each discipline and how they each address Public Health in vastly different ways according to the needs of their relevant population. This will be essential reading for all students on the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) programmes offered across the UK. Key features: Focuses on the specialist community public health nursing part of the NMC register Multidisciplinary, with contributors from all three specialisms Concerned with improving the health of the population, rather than treating the diseases of individual patients Focuses on practice and competencies What is public health? / Cécile Knai -- Public health nursing / Gill Coverdale -- Theoretical perspectives of health visiting / Faith Muir and Paul Reynolds -- Health visiting in practice / Faith Muir and Paul Reynolds -- The development of school nursing / Mary Smith and Sarah Sherwin -- School nursing and school health practice / Sarah Sherwin and Mary Smith -- What is occupational health? / Greta Thornbory -- Occupational health nursing practice / Greta Thornbory -- Education and continuing professional development of public health nurses / Rebecca Elliott.