| Description |
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Vol. 1. Part I: Background, definitions, theory. 1. Definitions of rural: a review of the literature -- 2. The theory and research base for rural nursing practice -- 3. The concept of Hardiness as applied to rural nursing -- 4. Health care in the south: 1900-1945 -- 5. Black folk healers and folk medicine in the rural south -- 6. Alternative practitioners and rural health care -- 7. The use of survey research techniques for program planning and evaluation -- 8. A study of mass medial use to obtain health-related information. Part II: Vulnerable populations. 9. Rural determinants in family health: considerations for community nurses -- 10. Social support and sex role orientation: a comparison of rural and urban pregnant women -- 11. Attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge regarding contraceptive use among adolescents in Loudon County, Tennessee -- 13. Perinatal crisis and the rural Saskatchewan family -- 14. Ethical dilemmas: do they occur in rural practice? -- 15. Differences in specific sources of social support for four healthy behaviors -- 16. A determination of stress and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in a rural population -- 17. Elders and neighborliness: implications for rural health care -- 18. Health promotion for rural black elderly: community-based program development -- 19. Stressors and coping mechanisms of older rural women -- 20. Health and health maintenance profiles of older rural women -- 21. Suicide among the rural elderly: an Arizona perspective -- 22. AIDS: a perspective from rural counties in Pennsylvania and New York -- 23. Health status and accident/illness rates of 10- to 16-year olds attending a summer sports camp -- 24. Health risks in agriculture -- 25. Establishing a nursing research program on Native American health in Oklahoma -- 26. Implementation and evaluation of the health resource program for migrant women in the Americus, Georgia area -- 27. Homelessness: a rural perspective. Vol. 2. Part I: Health care delivery: interdisciplinary collaboration. 1. Nursing care delivery in nonurban, nonindustrialized settings: a comparison of three industrialized countries -- 2. The future of rural communities: mobilizing local resources -- 3. Case management in rural areas: definition, clients, financing, staffing, and service delivery issues -- 4. Advanced visit planning: a concurrent quality assurance of IHS outpatient care -- 5. A rural community-based model for care delivery to chronically mentally ill elderly -- 6. Developing hospice programs in frontier communities -- 7. Community health: nursing students' perceptions of the poor -- 8. Continuing education for self-actualization: building a plan for rural nurses. Part II. Rural health care issues: expanding nursing roles. 9. Issues in rural health nursing -- 10. Rural health care delivery and financing: results of eight case studies -- 11. Rural health care and regionalization of services -- 12. Medical malpractice: a rural obstetrician's perspective -- 13. Nursing centers: one approach to rural health care -- 14. Correlation of quality of life and physician distribution in Georgia: a disturbing paradox -- 15. Nurses as primary care providers in rural Marica -- 16. Rural nurses: surviving cost containment -- 17. Work stresses of community health in small rural hospitals -- 19, Quality assurance: considerations for rural health care institutions -- 20. Challenges of serving as the director of an emergency medical service in Alaska -- 21. Emergency nursing in rural Texas: a case study -- 22. Changes in rural hospital services: the role of health professions -- 23. What can be done for rural health care? And who can do it? -- 24. Aerospace nursing: the new frontier -- 25. Meeting the challenges of rural nursing research |
| Analysis |
Rural regions Health services Nursing |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Community health nursing -- United States.
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Public health nursing -- United States.
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Rural health services -- United States.
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Rural health -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Rural health -- United States.
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Rural nursing -- United States.
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Public Health Nursing.
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Rural Health.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Genre/Form |
Nurses Instruction.
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| Author |
Bushy, Angeline.
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| LC no. |
91000083 |
| ISBN |
0803938349 (v. 1) |
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0803938357 (v. 1 : pbk.) |
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0803942400 (v. 2) |
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0803942419 (v. 2 : pbk.) |
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