Practicing Primary Health Care In Nursing: Caring For Populations

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Practicing Primary Health Care in Nursing: Caring for Populations is a new and innovative text that examines the broad definition of “primary health care” and incorporates a nursing perspective with a global and population-based focus. This text presents the enduring relationship that nurses have had in pioneering primary health care with an a population-based, professional and global perspective throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This text offers nurse educators and nursing education programs a way to broaden their curriculum to encompass the concepts of primary health care and population-based care within their coursework. Each chapter emphasizes the essential role and value that the nursing profession plays in addressing health care in the United Stated both individually and collectively through advocacy and policy work. KEY CONCEPTS Examines the nursing profession as an important and relevant player in primary health care Offers a variety of perspectives on primary health care in action Showcases nursing’s role in developing and implementing primary health care initiatives, both historically and currently