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"Community engagement expert reveals how readers can identify their community's assets and rally people together to achieve collective impact and solve deep-rooted challenges. Many of us are upset by issues like racism, poverty, and climate change, but it takes collective effort to get to the root of these complex problems. Whole Community Change offers a proven methodology for uniting leaders from business, human service organizations, and government...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this video program, the experiences of community health nurses and community members are used to examine the concept and principles of community development. How community development fits within community health nursing practice is illustrated, including the role of the community health nurse in this process. Outcomes and challenges involved in community development work are also highlighted.
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English
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We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block...
5) The Robobots
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Robobots move onto Littlewood Lane they create controversy with their strange ways, but eventually they convince the neighbors that they are a family worth knowing.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The "real world" of community health nursing practice in rural and urban settings is explored through the voices and activities of home health nurses and public health nurses. This video highlights differences and commonalities between these two types of nursing practice. Standards of community health nursing are identified, and various roles of community health nurses are illustrated throughout.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video program focuses on the process and issues inherent in assessing a geographic community and various aggregates within such a couumunity, using a partnership approach. The concept and methods of community/aggregate assessment are described, as is the role of the nurse in the process.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video explores aspects of programming in community health nursing. In particular, it focuses on the stages of programming - assessment to determine the need, program development, program implementation and program evaluation. To illustrate the process, community health nurses and other stakeholders discuss a program called "The Healthy Baby Club".
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl named Stella discovers an abandoned bus on the street in front of her house, and after she takes notice of the bus's hand-painted sign that says, "Heaven," and the sparrows nesting in the engine, Stella sees an opportunity to bring together her entire neighborhood.
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Publisher
Kettering Foundation
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Community Educators: A Resource for Educating and Developing Our Youth asserts that the relationships between education, community, and democracy are inseparable and illustrates that education is broader than just schooling. Harbour challenges current thinking about education and reveals how the public participates in the education and development of youth. This book is a call for action and responsibility--both individual and collective -- to transform...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Home visiting is part of the every-day experience of community health nurses. This video program examines the practice of home visiting from the perspectives of both a public health nurse and a home care nurse. Advantages, possible contexts and the phases of home visiting are all explored. Nursing skills and qualities that can enhance the home visiting process are discussed. Challenges, rewards and outcomes of home visiting are also featured.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video program focuses on various aspects of family nursing interventions within the context of community health nursing practice. In this video, front line community health nurses share their insights and practice stories, enabling a myriad of community health nursing interventions to be illustrated.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video program focuses on family assessment within the context of community health nursing practice. In this video, front line community health nurses illustrate the goals, processes, and issues inherent in assessing families. Tools of family assessment are also discussed, such as genograms, ecomaps, and communication/counselling skills.
18) Messenger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
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English
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During World War I, the influenza pandemic ultimately killed more people around the world than the war itself. The Last Town on Earth takes as its launching point a striking historical footnote: some uninfected towns were so terrified of the surrounding flu that they closed their entrances, posted signs warning strangers not to enter, and even stationed armed guards to make sure no outsiders brought infection into their communities. Mullen incisively...
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