NURSING TEXTBOOK RECEIVES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 4 -- Nurses are catalysts for
changing community health delivery in America, according to the
authors of an award-winning textbook.
	University of Virginia Nursing School Dean Jeanette Lancaster,
along with Marcia Stanhope of the University of Kentucky, have been
named winners of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year
Award. 
	"Community Health Nursing:  Promoting Health of Aggregates,
Families, and Individuals" was one of 40 books judged by the American
Journal of Nursing in the community health category.  The award is
based on a book's relevancy to practice; the scope, depth, and breadth
of content; timeliness; and vision.
	The American Journal of Nursing Book Awards have been given
since 1972.  Award winners receive certificates and their books will
be summarized or reviewed in future issues of the American Journal of
Nursing. 
	Now in its fourth edition, the textbook presents students and
practicing nurses with a comprehensive source of information for
planning community health nursing strategies.  One such strategy
includes partnerships between government, businesses, voluntary
organizations, consumers and health care providers aimed at reducing
health disparities among Americans, promoting healthy life styles and
increasing preventive health services for all Americans.
	Since its initial publication 12 years ago, the textbook
continues to be updated reflecting new health care information.  The
book includes "Healthy People 2000" objectives, rural nursing
initiatives as well as information about designing nursing centers,
the latest managed care initiative.
	The 1,084-page Community Health Nursing book is published by
Mosby-Year Book, Inc., in New York.
	Lancaster, the Sadie Health Cabaniss Professor of Nursing, has
been at U.Va. since 1989. She is nationally known for her research in
community health nursing.  Stanhope is associate dean and professor at
the College of Nursing at Kentucky.
	Other U.Va. book contributors are Dyan Aretakis, director of
the Teen Health Center;
Patty J. Hale, assistant professor of nursing; Pamela Kulbok,
associate professor of nursing, and Mary Lynn Mathre, an addiction
treatment nurse.
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March 3, 1997
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