Includes index.

Contents: Nursing in a community environment -- Public health and the promotion of wellbeing -- Professional approaches to care -- Managing risk -- Therapeutic relationship -- Care across the lifespan -- Community nursing assessment -- Carers: the keystone of communities and families -- Spirituality: a neglected aspect of care -- Collaborative working: benefits and barriers -- Approaches to acute care in the community -- Emerging issues in long-term conditions -- Providing quality in end-of-life care -- Organization and management of care -- Clinical leadership and quality care -- Learning and teaching in the community -- eHealth -- Development of community nursing in the context of changing times.