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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 peoples homes, community buildings, GP surgeries, or community hospitals. These nurses include practice nurses, health visitors, school nurses, district nurses, community childrens nurses, occupational health nurses, community sexual health nurses, and specialist and advanced nurse practitioners. In their different roles, they address a wide variety of health issues ranging from the public health needs of specific community groups to the individual needs of patients with long-term conditions requiring them to take both preventative and reactive approaches to health and illness across the life course.

This handbook offers a valuable resource for nurses that cuts across traditional community roles and settings. In a landscape of changing health policy, funding, and service configuration, the comprehensive content of the handbook offers primary care and community nurses access to evidence-based information to support them in everyday clinical decision making. The fourteen chapters cover a broad range of conditions, including preventative care and treatment techniques, and offer information about the organizational structures that nurses are required to navigate when working in the community. It is written by primary care and community nurses who are specialists in their area of current practice, education, and policy development. One of the strengths of the handbook are the numerous references to sources of further information, ensuring that the content is embedded in a contemporary context and that accurate broader information can easily be accessed.

The handbook is particularly useful to nurses new to community working, but this revised and updated third edition will be a trusted reference source for any nurse working in a community role or setting.

Judy Brook, Caroline McGraw, and Val Thurtle

This third edition of the handbook builds on two previous editions. Our thanks go to the editors of the previous editions, Professor Vari Drennan MBE from the Centre for Health and Social Care Research at Kingston University London, St Georges, and Professor Claire Goodman from the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care at the University of Hertfordshire. We would also like to thank all current and previous contributors to the handbook.

Helen Bedford

Professor of Childrens Health, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK

Louise Boole

Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Care Practice, University of Derby, UK

Sarah Bradley

Higher Trainee, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Mortimer Market Centre, London, UK

Emily Chung

Locum Consultant, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Mortimer Market Centre, London, UK

David Elliman

Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK and Hon. Consultant in Community Child Health, Whittington Health, and Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Francesca Entwistle

Professional Officer, Policy and Advocacy, UNICEF UK, London, UK

Lynda Filer

Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, UK

Helen Hamilton

Midwife, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, UK

Mary Harris

Macmillan Centre Manager, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK

Siobhan Hicks