Community Health Nursing (second edition)" is an exhaustive, comprehensive, almost encyclopedic, treatise on the subject. It deals with the theoretic aspects of community and public health nursing, on the one hand and on the other, it enunciates the principles and practices of nursing intervention in various community health care settings. Following are some of the unique features of "Community Health Nursing (second edition). It describes the effective communication and pedagogical methods that, when judiciously adopted by the staff of nursing colleges, could raise the standard of teaching and promote learning in the students. * It guides the students in preparing for the tests, viva voce and written examinations