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Book SynopsisProviding the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to becoming a home care aide, this text introduces scenarios with a cast of four aides and a supervisor to provide realistic examples of what the student can expect to encounter in practice. It highlights key considerations and reminders, as well as what to observe, report, and record.Table of ContentsPART 1: Orientation to Home Care 1. Learning about Home Care 2. The Home Care Industry 3. Developing Effective Communication Skills 4. Understanding Your Client's Needs 5. Understanding How the Body Works 6. Observing, Reporting, Recording 7. Working with the Ill and Disabled PART 2: Managing the Home Environment 8. Maintaining a Safe Environment 9. Maintaining a Healthy Environment 10. Meeting the Client's Nutritional Needs PART 3: Home Care Procedures 11. Preventing Infection/Medical Asepsis 12. Body Mechanics 13. Bedmaking 14. Personal Care 15. Elimination 16. Collecting Specimens 17. Measuring Vital Signs 18. Special Procedures PART 4: Meeting The Client's Special Needs 19. Caring for Older Adults 20. Caring for Mothers, Infants, and Children 21. Caring for Clients with Mental Illness 22. Caring for Clients with Illnesses Requiring Home Care 23. Caring for the Dying Client 24. Emergencies PART 5: Professional Skills 25. Getting a Job and Keeping It

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Book SynopsisPractical and student-friendly, this workbook reinforces retention and comprehension of information covered in the second edition of the text. A chapter-by-chapter companion to the textbook, it includes a variety of exercises to enhance learning and hold student interest, as well as skills competency checklists.Table of ContentsQUESTIONS PART 1: Orientation to Home Care 1. Learning about Home Care 2. The Home Care Industry 3. Developing Effective Communication Skills 4. Understanding Your Client's Needs 5. Understanding How the Body Works 6. Observing, Reporting, Recording 7. Working With the Ill and Disabled PART 2: Managing the Home Environment 8. Maintaining a Safe Environment 9. Maintaining a Healthy Environment 10. Meeting the Client's Nutritional Needs PART 3: Home Care Procedures 11. Preventing Infection/Medical Asepsis 12. Body Mechanics 13. Bedmaking 14. Personal Care 15. Elimination 16. Collecting Specimens 17. Measuring Vital Signs 18. Special Procedures PART 4: Meeting The Client's Special Needs 19. Caring for Older Adults 20. Caring for Mothers, Infants, and Children 21. Caring for Clients with Mental Illness 22. Caring for Clients with Illnesses Requiring Home Care 23. Caring for the Dying Client 24. Emergencies PART 5: Professional Skills 25. Getting a Job and Keeping It ANSWERS PART 1: Orientation to Home Care 1. Learning about Home Care 2. The Home Care Industry 3. Developing Effective Communication Skills 4. Understanding Your Client's Needs 5. Understanding How the Body Works 6. Observing, Reporting, Recording 7. Working With the Ill and Disabled PART 2: Managing the Home Environment 8. Maintaining A Safe Environment 9. Maintaining a Healthy Environment 10. Meeting the Client's Nutritional Needs PART 3: Home Care Procedures 11. Preventing Infection/Medical Asepsis 12. Body Mechanics 13. Bedmaking 14. Personal Care 15. Elimination 16. Collecting Specimens 17. Measuring Vital Signs 18. Special Procedures PART 4: Meeting The Client's Special Needs 19. Caring for Older Adults 20. Caring for Mothers, Infants, and Children 21. Caring for Clients with Mental Illness 22. Caring for Clients with Illnesses Requiring Home Care 23. Caring for the Dying Client 24. Emergencies PART 5: Professional Skills 25. Getting a Job and Keeping It SKILLS COMPETENCY CHECKLISTS SKILLS COMPETENCY CHECKLISTS RECORD

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction 1.1. Aims and content of the book (i) To clarify forms and consequences of stigma and (ii) to outline anti-stigma programs, including evidence on their efficacy 1.2. Language Person-first language, thought police as distraction from anti-stigma work 1.3. Types of anti-stigma agendas Services agenda, rights agenda, self-worth agenda 1.4. Should we sugarcoat stigma by downplaying the challenges of mental illness? Impairments due to mental illness, disability and label 1.5. Studies and evidence Types of available evidence, research synthesis, pros and cons of meta-analyses; this will inform readers about types of evidence that are referred to throughout this book 1.6. Diagnosis and mental health continuum Pros and cons of psychiatric diagnoses, their limited validity, continuum model 1.7. Stigma in a time of rapid societal change Increased difficulty for disadvantaged individuals with mental illness in a world in crisis (Social inequality, migration etc.) 1.8. What is not covered in this book Special topics and populations, e.g. people in forensic psychiatry; mental illness stigma in low and middle-income countries 1.9. Perspective of this book Written by the author in his roles as researcher, clinician, peer and anti-stigma worker; voices of service users and relatives are present throughout the book with quotes from qualitative research as well as by the contributions of JBP and MHG (see above) 2. Historical and social aspects of mental illness and social exclusion The aim of this chapter is to contextualize mental illness stigma in terms of its historical and social aspects - both of which are crucial to understand current stigma and ways to address it. 2.1. Historical aspects Madness in ancient Greece, Greek tragedy and concept of melancholia; forced sterilization and "euthanasia" in Nazi Germany; psychiatric reform movement and anti-psychiatry of the 1960ies 2.2. Prevalence and burden of mental disorders Prevalence, burden, disability-adjusted life years, costs of mental disorder in- and outside the mental healthcare system, lack of adequate policy response, key populations (e.g. youth), health economy perspective, "mental health in all policies" approach 2.3. Mental health as a task for society Social determinants of mental health, "deaths of despair", need for a social model of mental health, social solutions 3. What is stigma? This chapter introduces basic concepts of stigma as it applies to people with mental illness and also to other stigmatized conditions; the aim is to clarify the concepts and their implications for interventions based on sociological and social psychological literature (prior to discussing stigma as it specifically applies to people with mental illness in Chapters 5 ff.). 3.1. Terminology, models and forms of stigma 3.1.1. Origin of the word stigma 3.1.2. Stigma as umbrella term 3.1.3. Social cognitive model Stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination (Corrigan) 3.1.4. Sociological model Difference, labeling, separation, status loss, discrimination, power (Link & Phelan) 3.1.5. Forms of stigma: Public, self, structural 3.1.6. Levels of stigma Matter of degree (subtle/blatant), explicit vs. implicit, open vs. indirect, microaggression 3.1.7. Stigma and knowledge - mental health literacy 3.1.8. Intersectionality Double stigma, origin of concept 3.2. Categorization and stereotypes as basic elements of stigma 3.2.1. What is categorization? 3.2.2. Categorization and prejudice reduction De-categorization, group differentiation, re-categorization 3.2.3. What are stereotypes? 3.2.4. Stereotype content Fiske's stereotype content model: warmth and competence; stereotypes and kernel of truth discussion; stereotypes as normal perception of bizarre behavior? 3.2.5. Development of stereotypes Unconscious association, outgroup homogeneity effect, illusory correlation 3.2.6. Maintenance of stereotypes Biased processing, linguistic intergroup bias etc. 3.2.7. Application of stereotypes 3.2.8. Changing stereotypes 3.3. Functions of stigma 3.3.1. Functions for individuals Downward comparisons, self-esteem, terror management 3.3.2. Functions for own group Social cooperation, dilemma of trust, social identity 3.3.3. Comprehensive models Social dominance, just world beliefs, system justification, "to keep people down, in or away" (Jo Phelan) 3.3.4. Evolutionary perspective Avoidance of illness risk, smoke detector principle and false positives/overreactions; avoidance of poor cooperation partners 4. Consequences of stigma 4.1. Consequences for the non-stigmatized Common stereotypes, ambivalence, anxiety/insecurity, discrepancy between self-reported attitudes and behavior 4.2. Consequences for the stigmatized Experiences of discrimination, stigma consciousness, stereotype threat, stigma stress, attributional ambiguity, stigma and poor health 4.3. How can stigmatized individuals cope with stigma? Blame discrimination, ingroup comparisons, secrecy, social withdrawal, challenge stigma 4.4. Interaction between the stigmatized and the non-stigmatized From the perspective of the non-stigmatized, and of the non-stigmatized 5. People with mental illness and their relatives 5.1. People with mental illness 5.1.1. Public stigma Public attitudes, change over time, experience and anticipation of discrimination, public stigma and self-stigma 5.1.2. Role of biological models of mental illness Attribution theory, genetic essentialism, consequences of biological models 5.1.3. Self-stigma, shame, why try What is self-stigma, predictors of self-stigma, empowerment and stigma resistance, awareness of illness/insight 5.1.4. Secrecy and disclosure Pros and cons of disclosure, conditions of disclosure 5.1.5. Stigma stress 5.1.6. Recovery and stigma 5.1.7. Stigma as a barrier to service use 5.1.8. Structural discrimination Legal aspects, funding for health services and research; other aspects of structural discrimination are discussed in the respective societal domains in Chapter 7 5.2. People with a history of suicidality Suicide stigma, stigma and suicide prevention 5.3. Young people with psychosis risk or first episode of psychosis 5.4. People with specific diagnoses Aim of this subchapter is to cover a number of diagnoses for which the content of stigma and its consequences differ from other mental disorders: Autism, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, dementia, eating disorders, intellectual disability, substance use disorders 5.5. People with mental illness and other stigmatized characteristics (intersectionality) 5.6. Families and relatives 5.7. Children and adolescents 5.8. Migrants and refugees with mental illness 6. First-person accounts 6.1. Martina Heland-Graef: My experience of stigma and psychosis The author is a leading German peer advocate who fights, e.g., for mental health service reform and human rights for people with severe mental illness. 6.2. Janine Berg-Peer: My life and my daughter with severe mental illness The author is board member of the German National Alliance of Relatives of People with Mental Illness and has published several books on this topic. 7. Stigma in different societal domains (incl. anti-stigma interventions) 7.1. Employment 7.1.1. People with mental illness who work Public attitudes, employer attitudes, experiences of discrimination, disclosure, role of clinicians, structural barriers in the healthcare system, role of companies, anti-stigma interventions in the workplace 7.1.2. People with mental illness who are unemployed Disclosure during job search, interventions, supported employment, supported education, structural discrimination and barriers to finding work 7.2. Housing and Homelessness Homelessness and poor health, media and public attitudes, experiences of discrimination, structural problems in the social and healthcare sectors, Housing First 7.3. Healthcare 7.3.1. and 7.3.2. Individual level discrimination and interventions Attitudes of service providers, experiences of service users, interactions of service providers and service users, service providers with own experience of mental illness, "stigmatization of psychiatrists", anti-stigma interventions for service providers 7.3.3. and 7.3.4. Structural level discrimination and interventions Fragmentation of the healthcare service system, lack of implementation of psychosocial interventions, poor somatic care, architecture of mental healthcare, structural interventions, strengthening outpatient care, integrated care, prevention, peer support, avoiding coercion 7.4. Media Stereotypes, types of media (film, TV, newspaper, social media, video games), information and disinformation, relevance of media, media and suicide, origins of stigma in media, anti-stigma interventions for media professionals and media guidelines, role of peers and citizen journalism 7.5. Legal system Stigma and social justice; UN-convention on rights of persons with disabilities; new German legislation on social participation of persons with disabilities; voting rights; new Bavarian law on acute admissions to psychiatric hospital and protest against this law 8. Programs to reduce public stigma 8.1. Education Approach, problems, content, program types, evidence of efficacy 8.2. Name change Approach, side effects, evidence of efficacy 8.3. Protest Approach, examples, evidence of efficacy 8.4. Contact Approach, evidence of efficacy, contact and self-stigma, contact and social change, types of interventions, key ingredients, TLC3 (targeted, local, continuous, credible change; Corrigan), examples of contact-based programs 9. Programs to reduce self-stigma 9.1. Strategies to reduce self-stigma and to increase empowerment Psychoeducation, cognitive therapy, narrative approaches (Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy), photovoice, self-help and peer support 9.2. Honest, Open, Proud Honest, Open, Proud as a peer-led program to support people with mental illness in their decision whether and how to disclose their illness; program rationale and content; data on efficacy, program versions and issues of implementation 10. Programs to address treatment-related stigma and to facilitate help-seeking 10.1. General population and healthcare 10.2. Self-stigma, shame and relatives/carers 10.3. Evidence 11. Programs to reduce structural discrimination Summary of key approaches (specific interventions to reduce structural discrimination are discussed in Chapter 7 for the respective contexts: legal system etc.) 12. National anti-stigma campaigns - examples and challenges 12.1. Examples in English speaking countries Time to Change, UK; See Me, Scotland; Opening Minds, Canada 12.2. The situation in German speaking countries Lack of comparable national anti-stigma campaigns in German speaking countries 12.3. Funding for anti-stigma programs 12.4. Leadership of antistigma programs Peers/service users should lead programs 13. Summary and outlook Factors that facilitate social change; future developments (machine learning; social media and real-time interventions; biogenetic research, biomarkers of mental illness, risks of labeling and discrimination; embracing diversity as a value that counters stigma

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Overall, this is a comprehensive and informative book that has much to offer the student of public health, as well as the seasoned practicioner." Gill Watson; Nursing Standard; vol 20Table of ContentsThe profession of health visiting in the 21st century; Public health and health visiting; Models for Health visiting in specialist public community health nursing; Skills in specialist community public health nursing - health visiting; working with individuals and families; Skills in specialist community public health nursing - health visiting; working with social groups and communities; Working with socially excluded groups; Quality improvement through leading and managing change; Contemporary influences in safeguarding children; Safeguarding children: issues and dilemmas; Violence - debating the issues; Reflective practice; Ethical issues in ill health and health promotion; Nurse prescribing; Complementary therapies and health visiting; The use of health informatics in practice; Health economics of public health practice; Specialist community public health nursing: opportunities and challenges for the heath visiting

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Book SynopsisOffers a practical approach that helps you to learn and apply core concepts of community and public health nursing. This title provides numerous real-life examples that demonstrate your roles and responsibilities as a community health nurse.Trade Review"This book is intended mainly for degree nursing students, but it is also useful to those returning to nursing practise...One of the book's strengths is the focus on the family, and the micro culture within it...I would reccommend this book as a useful reference to anyone who needs to consider the global perspective." Journal of Community Nursing, March 2010 Table of ContentsUnit 1: Role and Context of Community/Public Health Nursing Practice 1. Responsibilities for Care in Community/Public Health Nursing 2. Origins and Future of Community/Public Health Nursing 3. The United States Health Care System 4. Financing of Health Care: Context for Community/Public Health Nursing 5. Global Health 6. Legal Context for Community/Public Health Nursing Practice Unit 2: Core Concepts for the Practice of Community/Public Health Nursing 7. Epidemiology: Unraveling the Mysteries of Disease and Health 8. Communicable Diseases 9. Environmental Health Risks: At Home, at Work, and in the Community 10. Relevance of Culture and Values for Community/Public Health Nursing Unit 3: Family as Client 11. Home Visit: Opening the Doors for Family Health 12. A Family Perspective in Community/Public Health Nursing 13. Family Case Management 14. Multiproblem Families Unit 4: Community as Client 15. Community Assessment 16. Community Diagnosis, Planning, and Intervention 17. Evaluation of Nursing Care with Communities Unit 5: Tools for Practice 18. Health Promotion and Risk Reduction in the Community 19. Screening and Referral 20. Health Teaching Unit 6: Contemporary Problems in Community/Public Health Nursing 21. Vulnerable Populations 22. Disaster Management: Caring for Communities in an Emergency 23. Violence: A Social and Family Problem 24. Adolescent Sexual Activity and Teenage Pregnancy 25. Substance Use Disorders Unit 7: Support for Special Populations 26. Rehabilitation Clients in the Community 27. Children in the Community 28. Elderly Persons in the Community Unit 8: Settings for Community/Public Health Nursing Practice 29. State and Local Health Departments 30. School Health 31. Home Health Care 32. Rural Health 33. Community Mental Health

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the theory and practice of the developing innovative practice of 'co-production' - a model of service in which users of a service will play an active and participatory role in the service provided to them, adopting a working partnership.Examples of methods and services designed on co-production principles are given by the experienced contributors, including housing initiatives in which the users, rather than professionals, provide support to each other and criminal justice settings in which offenders participate in active restorative justice programmes.Drawing together key figures in the field of social care, this book is important reading for social care practitioners and service providers wanting to stay up to date on the latest developments in the field , as well as academics, researchers and students.Trade ReviewCo-Production and Personalisation in Social Care has at its core a focus on the value of working in partnership with service users and treating disabled people with respect and as actors who are involved in co-producing their own situations and futures, rather than as 'problems' and passive recipients of professionally decided servides. -- Ethics and Social WelfareDrawing together key researchers and practitioners, this book will be essential reading for social care practitioners and service providers, academics, researchers and students. -- Handicap InfoHunter and Ritchie's book Co-Production and Personalisation in Social Care, is an important publication which provides an excellent introduction to co-production in social work... The authors impressed this reader as being experienced, knowledgeable and grounded and a great strength of the book is its practicality. -- SWAP E-bulletinTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction. Pete Ritchie, Ex-Director of Scottish Human Services and Susan Hunter, Edinburgh University. Chapter 2: It's About More Than the Money: Local Area Coordination as an Innovative Approach to Supporting People with Disabilities to Get a Good Life and to Creating More Welcoming Communities. Eddie Bartnik and Dr. Ron Chalmers, Directors of Disability Services Commission, Western Australia. Chapter 3: Co-Production through Encouragement: The Braveheart Project. James Mulholland (on behalf of Braveheart). Chapter 4: Co-Production in Supported Housing: KeyRing Living Support Networks and Neighbourhood Networks. Carl Poll, former director of KeyRing. Chapter 5: Co-Production - Support for Self-Employment. Jane Pagler, Wales. Chapter 6: Family Group Conferencing and `Partnership'. James Cox, Co-ordinator of Family Group Conferencing project, Edinburgh City Council. Chapter 7: Person-Centred Planning and Co-Production. Steve Coulson, Development Worker, Edinburgh Development Group. Chapter 8: Restoring `Stakeholder' Involvement in Justice. Bill Whyte, Criminal Justice Social Work Development Centre for Scotland. Chapter 9: Recovery in Psychosis: Moments and Levels for Collaboration. Dr. Kristjana Kristiansen, University of Trondheim. Endnote. References. Subject Index. Author Index.Research Highlights in Social WorkThis topical series examines areas of particular interest to those in social and community work and related fields. Each book draws together different aspects of the subject, highlighting relevant research and drawing out implications for policy and practice. The project is under the editorial direction of Professor Joyce Lishman, Head of the School of Applied Social Studies at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

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Book SynopsisDispelling the myths about how personalisation works for people with dementia living in care homes, this book demonstrates how to introduce Individual Service Funds (ISFs), what works and what doesn't, and how to deal with difficulties and setbacks.Individual Service Funds are one way that people living with dementia can have a personal budget. The authors explain how they went about introducing the principles of ISFs to people living with dementia in a large care home in Stockport, without using any additional funding. They describe the person-centred practices used and the involvement of the council, commissioners, staff and families. Through clear and detailed stories and examples, they demonstrate the dramatic approach to quality of life for people with dementia the approach can deliver. There is a strong emphasis on managerial and organisational issues, including getting staff 'on board', providing adequate support, budgeting, building effective partnerships and implementing change.Providing helpful insights and examples for good practice, this book is essential reading for all those involved in providing personalised care for people with dementia living in care homes, including care staff, care home managers, local authority commissioners, service providers and policy makers.Trade ReviewThis book is packed full of stories that illustrate the outcomes for people that can result from deploying an ISF model. It focuses on the outstanding work that has been done at Bruce Lodge, a large care home for people with dementia now arranged as 43 separate ISFs, with every resident able to control a number of hours of support that are set aside for them to do the things they want, when and where they want... Delivering better outcomes is at the heart of all of these stories, and it is at the heart of this book... I feel sure that this book will help many more people to bring about these positive changes within services and within people's lives. -- from the foreword by Dr. Sam Bennett, Programme Director, Think Local Act PersonalTable of ContentsForeword by Dr Sam Bennett. 1. Introduction and Getting Started. 2. Plans and Processes. 3. Starting with Staff One-Page Profiles. 4. Individual Time. 5. Four Plus One Questions. 6. What Next? 7. Night Staff, Volunteers and Faith Communities. 8. Person-Centred Reviews and Working Together for Change. 9. What Changed? 10. Overall Impact and Lessons Learned. Appendix I: Example Agenda. Appendix II: One-Page Profile Standards for Borough Care. Appendix III: One-Page Strategy. Appendix IV: Dashboard. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis exploration of the work of nurses and other caregivers in nursing homes is set in the context of wider political, economic and cultural forces that influence, both positively and negatively, the quality of care for America's elderly.

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Book SynopsisA Practical Handbook for Community Health Nurses: Working with Children and their Parents is designed to provide nurses and their students with an up--to--date reference source, bringing together the available evidence on a range of issues central to their work with children and parents.Table of ContentsContributors. Preface. Introduction The Changing Context of Community Health Nursing. Part 1 The Child and the Family. Chapter 1 Families and Social Policy. Chapter 2 The Developing Child,. Chapter 3 Promoting Psychological Health: A Focus on Children within Families. Chapter 4 Caring within Families. Chapter 5 Post-Natal Depression: Minimising the Impact. Chapter 6 The Child at Risk: Working with Families and the Child Protection System. Part 2 The Child and Nutrition. Chapter 7 Breast Feeding: The Art and Science. Chapter 8 Infant Feeding and Early Weaning: Prinicples and Practice. Chapter 8 Nutrition in Childhood: Advice and Dilemmas. Chapter 10 Dental Health: A Practical Guide to Preventative Dentistry. Part 3 Common Problems in Childhood. Chapter 11 Immunisation and Prevention: An Up-to-Date Perspective. Chapter 12 Managing Infections: How to Help Parents. Chapter 13 Managing Atopic Eczema: Evidence and Issues. Chapter 14 Sleep Disorders in the Pre-school Child: How the Health Professionals Can Help. Chapter 15 Toilet Training and Related Issues: Anticipatory Help for Parents and Families. Index

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Book SynopsisOffering concrete suggestions for improving the quality of nursing-home life, Uneasy Endings will find a broad audience among those who work with the aged.Trade ReviewShield asks why a 'good' nursing home did not satisfy either residents or staff.... Medical anthropologists interested in the effect of biomedical values on long-term residential institutions will learn something from Uneasy Endings. Policy planners and care givers responsible for the support of the frail elderly should find this book valuable because it not only shows how institutional inadequacies undermine the effectiveness of a showplace facility, but also offers solutions worth trying out. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsPrefaceNotebook: The 7:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Shift1. Anthropology in an American Nursing Home Voice: Stanley Fierstein2. Background and Context Voice: Max Sager3. Residents Notebook: Resident-Care Conference4. Conflicting Worldviews: Home versus Hospital Notebook: Physical Therapy Notebook: The Threatened Strike5. The Total Institution Notebook: 5:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M. 105 Notebook: Resident-Care Conference 1106. Bridges to the Community Notebook: The New Admission7. Separation and Adaptation: The Passage Notebook: The Kitchen Voice: Ida Kanter8. The Limits of Exchange Voice: Bernice Meyerhov9. Liminality in the Nursing Home: The Endless Transition Notebook: Resident-Care Conference10. Summary and Conclusion Voice: Priscilla Frails, Nursing AssistantNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisRecent evidence-based research and strategies for family-focused nursing texts are hard to find. That's why we've made it our priority to deliver the most up-to-date educational resource to help nurses meet the goal of empowering patients and their families - throughout the entire nursing process.Table of Contents Health Care Needs for the 21st Century Moving to Family-Focused Care Thinking Family to Guide Nursing Actions Communication With and About Families Family Assessment Cultural and Diversity Aspects of Health and Illness Care Needs Using Family Theory to Guide Nursing Practice Developing a Family-Focused Nursing Practice Family and Nurse Presence in Family-Focused Care Family-Focused Care in Acute Settings Family-Focused Care and Chronic Illness Family-Focused Care to Meet Population Needs “Doing For” Versus “Being With” Family-Focused Nursing Actions Teaching Family Members Supportive Care

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Book SynopsisDistrict Nursing at a Glance is the perfect study and revision guide for students and qualified nurses alike, providing a concise yet thorough overview of community care and its implications for nursing practice. A new addition to the market-leading at a Glance series, this dynamic and highly visual resource covers a wide range of fundamental topics, from the historical and theoretical background of district nursing to practical information on prescribing, mental health, home assessment, pain management, end of life care, and much more. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this portable and accessible guide: Provides a clear picture of delivering care in a patient's own home and addresses many contemporary and emerging aspects of practiceCovers stroke, cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, chemotherapy, and other common diseases suffered by patients in the community settingOffers up-to-date information and advice on evidence-based practice, educational pathways, and career developmentDiscusses the use of mobile technology to support professional practice of caring for patients in their homesIncludes summary boxes, key points, full references, links to online resources, and recommendations for practice to improve the learning experience District Nursing at a Glance is a must-have revision guide and reference for pre-registration nursing students, particularly those in community clinical placements, post-registration students on district nursing courses, and newly qualified district nurses and healthcare assistants.Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgements xii Introduction to District Nursing xiii Part 1 Introduction 1 1 The early history of district nursing 2 Matthew Bradby 2 History of the Queen’s Nursing Institute 4 Matthew Bradby Part 2 The learning environment 7 3 Preparation for a learning environment in the community 8 Shirley Willis 4 Providing student placements in the community 10 Irene Cooke and Deborah Haydock 5 Supporting nursing students in the community 12 Josephine Gray 6 Mentorship and preceptorship 14 Meriel Chudleigh Part 3 Working in the community 17 7 The role of the district nurse: autonomous practice 18 Matthew Peasey 8 Evidence‐based practice 20 Ben Bowers 9 Communication 22 Claire Green 10 Initial assessment and collaborative working 24 Georgina Newbury and Jayne Foley 11 Safer caseloads: service planning and caseload allocation 26 Celine Grundy, Helen Wheeler, Paula Wood, and Rachel Hogan 12 Skill mix in the community 28 Ann Cubbin 13 Nurse prescribing 30 Dianne Hogg 14 Medicines management 32 Dianne Hogg 15 Patient documentation 34 Angela Reed-Fox 16 Risk management 36 Mandy McKendry 17 Measuring quality and patient outcomes 38 Susan Harness 18 Caring for yourself in the community setting 40 Anita Clough and Neesha Oozageer Gunowa Part 4 Caring for the whole person in the community 43 19 How to make every contact count: health chat 44 Amanda Huddleston 20 Cultural issues associated with district nursing 46 Rachel Daly 21 Social isolation and loneliness 48 Annie Darby 22 Health inequalities and engaging vulnerable groups 50 Annie Darby 23 Hygiene in the home, infection prevention and control 52 Susan Wynne 24 Substance and alcohol dependence 54 Alison Ward 25 Safety in the home, including falls prevention 56 Helen Davies 26 Effective discharge planning 58 Lena O’Reilly 27 Encouraging patient concordance 60 Gina Riley 28 Community health equipment services 62 Candice Pellett 29 The use of new technology to assist daily living in the home 64 Hilary Thompson 30 Use of mobile technology to support practice 66 Margo Grady 31 Patient care in nursing homes 68 Linda Thorley, Charlotte Hudd, and Anne Bennett 32 Person‐centred dementia care 70 Mo Boersma 33 Safeguarding 72 Helen Marshall 34 Supporting carers 74 Julie Bliss and Emma Lea 35 Supporting young carers and older carers 78 Julie Bliss and Emma Lea 36 Palliative care 80 Vanessa Gibson 37 Spirituality 82 Melanie Rogers 38 Bereavement 84 Julia Fairhall Part 5 Physical and mental health in the community 87 39 Holistic nursing assessment in the community 88 Emma Brodie 40 Baseline observations 90 Lucy Stewart 41 Long‐term conditions and co‐morbidities 92 Lorraine Smith 42 Hydration 94 Alice Chingwaru 43 Nutrition in the community setting including enteral feeding 96 Alison Burton Shepherd and Susan Dunajewski 44 Kidney/renal health 98 Debbie Brown 45 Skin assessment 100 Sandra Lawton 46 Continence 102 Debra Dooley 47 Constipation 104 Debbie Bromley 48 Catheter care 106 Debbie Myers 49 Recognising lymphoedema, lipoedema and chronic oedema in the community 108 Mary Warrilow 50 Pressure ulcer prevention 110 Debbie Myers and Neesha Oozageer Gunowa 51 Lower leg ulceration 112 Carol Hedger and Susan Knight 52 Management of type 2 diabetes in the older person: using the International Diabetes Federation Guidelines in practice 114 Sonia Wijesundera, Julie Phipps, and Marion Snelling 53 Ischaemic heart disease 116 Lynne Bax and Helena Masters 54 Respiratory health 118 Dorothy Wood, Mags Dowie, and Lee Hough 55 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 120 Lynne Bax and Helena Masters 56 End‐stage respiratory care in the community 122 Jenny Rasmussen 57 Neurological conditions 124 Victoria Queen 58 Multiple sclerosis 126 Julie Matthews and Kathy Franklin 59 Cancer as a chronic condition 128 Ben Bowers 60 Mental illness 130 Lesley Frater 61 Assessing mental capacity 132 Beverly Graham 62 Dementia 134 Morejoy Saineti 63 Learning disability 136 Raj Jhamat and Shirley Chappel Part 6 Specialisms in the community 139 64 Specialist nurses and the role of district nurses in coordinating care 140 Sadie Campbell 65 Voluntary organisations and district nurses 142 Carol Singleton 66 Occupational health: specialist community public health nurses 144 Catherine Best 67 Community learning disability nursing 146 Denise Souter 68 Tuberculosis nursing 148 Nicky Brown and Simone Thorn Heathcock 69 Prison nursing 150 Amanda Phillips 70 Nursing in defence primary healthcare 152 Katherine Moore 71 Homeless and inclusion health nursing 154 Jan Keauffling 72 Gardens, health and district nurses 156 Cate Wood References and further reading 158 Index 161

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