This user friendly text is presented as a handbook for students and practicing nurses
who work with communities to promote health. Community as Partner focuses on
the essentials of practice with the community. Students will find this text helpful for
the many examples of working with the community as partner. For over 20 years
and five editions, this textbook has served undergraduate, RN to BS, and RN to MS
students and graduate students alike as a framework for professional nursing practice
in the community. Our intention is to keep the text basic and accessible to all who
practice in the community. Using this text with distance education and virtual learning
with Internet resources will enrich practice in any community.
This sixth edition continues the philosophy of the authors by strengthening the
theoretical base with new chapters on globalization and rural health. All other chapters
have been revised and updated from the fifth edition. We continue with a series
of chapters that takes the reader through the entire nursing process by using a reallife
community as our example. The urban example is enhanced and expanded
throughout the remainder of the book by selected aggregates which serve as exemplars
of working with the community as partner as well.