Author: Kiran Macha, John P McDonough

Epidemiology for Advanced Nursing Practice guides graduate-level nursing students to understand the basic concepts of epidemiology while gaining and applying statistical conceptual skills. Focusing on the importance of disease prevention and community-centered migration, this text helps you to expand your knowledge base while enhancing practical application skills and stimulating research interests.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1  Epidemiology and its Progress
Chapter 2  The Role of Epidemiology and Statistics in Advanced Nursing Practice
Chapter 3  Study Designs and their Outcomes
Chapter 4  Nursing Resources for Epidemiology
Chapter 5  Emerging Infectious Diseases
Chapter 6  Screening and Prevention of Diseases
Chapter 7  Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases
Chapter 8  Genetic Epidemiology
Chapter 9  Environmental Epidemiology
Chapter 10  The Role of Culture in Epidemiology
Chapter 11  Nursing in Pandemics and Emergency Preparedness
Chapter 12  Legal and Ethical Issues in Epidemiology
Chapter 13  Epidemiological Applications in the Clinical Nursing Sciences

©2012, 374 pages.