Fundamentals of Community Health Nursing

Fundamentals of Community Health Nursing, written by top clinical expert in acute care nursing, this book thoroughly covers all the need-to-know details on the care of adult, critically ill patients and their families. Supported by helpful tables, the book’s practical, building-block organization starts with the basics before proceeding to more complex concepts, paralleling the blueprint for the critical care nursing CCRN certification examination. Community Health Nursing provides fundamental information that new clinicians must understand to provide safe, competent nursing care to all critically ill patients, regardless of their underlying medical diagnosis. This book covers pathologic conditions and management strategies commonly encountered in all adult critical care units. It is also presents advanced critical care concepts or pathologic conditions that are less common or more specialized than those generally found in adult critical care units.