Oxford handbook of primary care and community nursing

Abstract

Primary care and community nurses carry out vital work to support the health of individuals and communities. Unlike nurses working in secondary care settings, primary care and community nurses may work alone or in small teams, in a variety of settings such as people's homes, community buildings, GP surgeries or community hospitals. This book offers a valuable resource for nurses that cuts across traditional community roles and settings. In a landscape of changing health pol-icy, funding, and service configuration, the comprehensive content of this book offers pri-mary care and community nurses access to evi-dence-based information to support them in every-day clinical decision making.