Gemeinde- und Familiengesundheitspflege

Community-based care is diverse and complex. This textbook describes the roles of nursing professionals in a practice-oriented manner, taking into account the tasks and processes for their further development. The author team outlines the development and structures of community-based care across countries. It clarifies which concepts support nursing professionals in dealing with existential crises, role overload, and self-care in a professional manner. It integrates approaches from Caring Communities, neighborhood-based health counseling, and care in disaster situations into nursing practice. It highlights the specifics of the nursing process through preventive home visits, presents individual and population-based forms of nursing assessment, and lists common nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes. It describes nursing interventions in outpatient care, such as counseling for the elderly with hearing impairments, wound care, transitional care, as well as spiritual support and transcultural care. It explains how autonomy and social participation can be enabled for families, children, people with disabilities, and dying individuals in a community-based context. It illustrates how dependent, uprooted, homeless, self-neglecting, and mentally ill individuals can receive low-threshold care. It offers insights into the professional everyday life of advanced outpatient care through nursing identification figures in typical care situations.