Community Nursing and Health Care brings together the key issues arising from the relationships between community healthcare nurses, their clients, and other health professionals, emphasising how these must develop to enable community care to be 'redesigned around the patient'.This invaluable text:Sets community nursing within its current dynamic contextIs written by a variety of professionals, each contributing through their different roles to the development of the fieldDiscusses key themes, such as clinical governance, across chaptersEmphasises the importance of collaborative working and how to achieve thisClearly demonstrates the importance of adaptability and responsiveness to changeEnables readers to become key players in the direction and practice of community nursing