Emerging nursing care of vulnerable populations
Subtitle: Contemporary infection control for nurses
By: Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud [et al.], guest editors.
Contributors: Flaskerud, Jacquelyn Haak.
Series: The Nursing clinics of North America -- v. 34, no. 2 (June 1999)
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 539
Subjects: Nursing diagnosis; Nursing -- Social aspects; Nurse and patient; Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- Nursing; Infection; Care of the sick; Nursing -- Periodicals
Other titles: Contemporary infection control for nurses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Homeless as a vulnerable population -- Aaron J. Strehlow and Tonia Amos-Jones ;; title: Patterns of burden in wives who care for husbands with dementia -- Betty Wehtje Winslow and Patricia Carter ;; title: Health-related problems in a vulnerable population: pregnant teens and adolescent mothers -- Janna Lesser and Susan Escoto-Lloyd ; Conceptualizing battered women as a vulnerable population: a case study report / -- Sheryl Tyson and Barbara Fleming ;; title: Health problems in gay and bisexual men -- Peter J. Ungvarski and Arnold H. Grossman ;; title: Nursing care of the elderly as a vulnerable population -- Dorothy F. Tullmann and Betty L. Chang ;; title: Disparities of health in African Americans -- Claudia M. Davis and Condessa M. Curley ;; title: Health problems of Asian and Latino immigrants -- Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud and Sue Kim ;; title: Health problems of lesbian women -- Judith M. Saunders ;; title: Vulnerability to depression: youth at risk -- Angela V. Albright; title: Healthcare marketplace in the next millennium and nurses' roles in infection prevention and control -- Marguerite McMillan Jackson ;; title: Emerging infectious diseases and pathogens -- Teresa Chou ;; title: Common infections acquired in the hospital: the nurse's role in prevention -- Connie J. Steed ;; title: Putting infection control principles into practice in home care -- Mary M. Friedman and Emily Rhinehart ;; title: Sterilization vs. disinfection vs. clean -- Carla J. Alvarado ;; title: Risk of occupational exposure and infection with infectious disease -- Robert J. Sharbaugh ;; title: Communicable diseases: infection prevention for nurses at work and at home -- Mary L. Bertin ;; title: Rule-makers who establish infection control standards -- Agnes J. Yost and Janet M. Serkey.