Written in an accessible, user-friendly, and practical style, this text provides a focused and highly engaging introduction to community health nursing. It focuses on health care for people in their homes and where they live with an overriding emphasis on care of the client in the community, and the business and politics of community health nursing. This book is accompanied by a robust Companion Website full of online activities to enhance the student learning experiences.

Reflecting on providing care to clients in the community -- Respect for an ethical and cultural context for care in the community -- The vision for the alliance for health model -- Relating health policy and evidence-based research in the community -- Clear communication and information management in the community -- Narratives of courage : the voice of clients in community health nursing -- Expertise of the compassionate nurse in community-based care -- Validity and reliability in epidemiology and environmental health -- Inquiry and health promotion, health maintenance, and health restoration in the community -- Flexibility and systems of care management for providing care in the community -- Justice and resource allocation for the family and community -- Precision and principles of community program development -- Using project management for successful and viable community program change -- Staying alert as the key to emergency and disaster management -- Responsibility and interstate, international, and global community health concerns -- Creating an evidence-based future in community health nursing.