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Introduction to Community Nursing Practice
Author: Jane Arnott
Publisher: Open University Press
Pages: 224pp
ISBN: 9780335244713
Review
The authors state: ‘The aim of this book is to provide you with a text that offers both a theoretical and practical resource as you enter this foreign or different world of community nursing.’
They are to be congratulated on their success in putting together a much-needed and welcome book for nursing students.
Well written and accessible, it touches on all aspects of complex communities, with case studies that bring the challenges alive.
Politicians have been calling for greater resources to be focused on community health services since 1948, but nurse education continues to emphasise hospital nursing.
This is understandable, given that 70 per cent of nursing still takes place in hospital. But it has to change if the nursing profession is to make a valid contribution in avoiding hospital admissions.
My hope is that this book proves to be an inspiration to budding community nurses, as well as helping those nurses who choose to work in hospitals understand better why their patients have landed up in a hospital bed.
Reviewer: Lynn Young
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