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Book SynopsisFully 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 re
Trade ReviewThis handbook is essential to convey accurate and up-to-date information * Gwendolyn Sue Short, Doody Reviews *
Review from previous edition This book is an excellent reference book for nurses working in the community primary care settings. It is written by experts in their relevant fields and provides the reader with up to date information which is easy to read and easy to access... It is an invaluable resource for the busy community nurse. * The Irish Practice Association website *
Table of Contents1: The context of health care 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
