Unit I: Foundations of community health nursing -- The journey begins: introduction to community health nursing / Cherie Rector -- History and evolution of community health nursing / Kristine D. Warner -- Setting the stage for community health nursing / Kristine D. Warner -- Evidence-based practice and ethics in community health nursing / Cherie Rector -- Transcultural nursing in the community / Cherie Rector -- Unit II: Public health essentials for community health nursing -- Structure and economics of community health services / Cherie Rector -- Epidemiology in community health care / Kristine D. Warner -- Communicable disease control / Karen Smith-Sayer -- Environmental health and safety / Kristine D. Warner -- Unit III: Community health nursing toolbox -- Communication, collaboration, and contracting / Cherie Rector -- Health promotion: achieving change through education / Kristine D. Warner and Debra Millar -- Planning and developing community programs and services / Mary E. Summers and Kristine D. Warner -- Policy making and community health advocacy / Lydia C. Bourne -- Unit IV: The community as client -- Theoretical basis of community health nursing / Kristine D. Warner and Karin Lightfoot -- Community as client: applying the nursing process / Filomela A. Marshall -- Global health and international community health nursing / Marie P. Farrell -- Being prepared: disasters and terrorism / Kristine D. Warner and Sheila Hoban -- Unit V: The family as client -- Theoretical bases for promoting family health / Kathleen Riley-Lawless -- Working with families: applying the nursing process / Phyllis G. Salopek -- Violence affecting families / Sheila M. Holcomb -- Unit VI: Promoting and protecting the health of aggregates with developmental needs -- Maternal--child health: working with perinatal, infant, toddler, and preschool clients / Cherie Rector -- School-age children and adolescents / Cherie Rector -- Adult women and men / Barbara J. Blake and Gloria Ann Jones Taylor -- Older adults: aging in place / Frances Wilson and Cherie Rector -- Unit VII: Promoting and protecting the health of vulnerable populations -- Working with vulnerable people / Cherie Rector -- Clients with disabilities and chronic illnesses / Kristine D. Warner -- Behavioral health in the community / Elizabeth M. Andal and Christine L. Savage -- Working with the homeless / Mary Lashley -- Issues with rural, migrant, and urban health care / Margaret Avila and Cherie Rector -- Unit VIII: Settings for community health nursing -- Public settings for community health nursing / Erin D. Maughan -- Private settings for community health nursing / Mary Ellen Miller and Rose Utley -- Clients receiving home health and hospice care / Joyce Zerwekh.