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Home Health Care Nursing: Concepts and Models
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NEW EDITION - Spring 2009
This publication of the Home Healthcare Nurses Association focuses on the theoretical foundations of home health nursing practice. These theoretical foundations support the unique relationship or partnership the home health nurse enjoys with the patient. The chapters are intended to provide the student, novice, or experienced home health nurse with a foundational understanding of the theories, concepts, models and techniques used to facilitate communication and learning between the nurse and the patient/family and between the nurse and other healthcare professionals are presented and described in ways that are directly applicable to practice.
Student nurses, nurses new to home care, veteran home health nurses, and academics will find that this resource offers classic information that has previously been applied only to the institutional settings of care, described in a way that is applicable to home health nursing practice. This edition also includes new information that contributes to the literature by offering new perspectives on the theoretical foundations of home health nursing practice. The approach of the home health nurse to the nurse-patient/family relationship is supported by these theories and concepts and is justified by the scientific grounding of nursing practice. |
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