A Reflection On The Health Care Needs Of The General Rural Community

The article in question is a reflection on the practical solutions applied to the health care needs of the general rural community when the provincial system started in Canada. Phyllis Lyttle provides the basis of the article, delving on the extensive roles aimed at meeting the needs and expectations of the people in Nova Scotia during the pre- and post-world war period. The article begins with a low profile when Lyttle starts her new roles as a public health worker because she was coming to implement a new program, but the local physician Dr. MacMillan had not been notified by the provincial government. The situation appears to be a reflection of the bureaucracies that existed in the public health administration and perceptions that older and experienced players had on new entrants. For the nurse to succeed in Baddeck, she had to seek support from the Dr. MacMillan, although their terms of reference would not be agreeable to the Public Health Department (Mullally, 2009). A critical analysis of the article will focus on how the author achieves the objectives outlined as well as critiques of the structure and inconsistencies in the paper.
The introductory paragraphs of the article are successful in providing an illustration of the objectives the paper seeks to achieve. For example, it begins with the new public health nurse developing rapport with the doctor, which would carve out her place and performance of her duties as a rural health care nurse. Through her work as a public health nurse, Lyttle provides scholars with a better understanding of the role played, which involved managing countless personal as well as professional issues at the community level. The provision of the public health services required the public health ...

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...urgent minor surgeries in the absence of the physician. For a normal public health nurse, it would have been difficult to perform such procedures.
Overall, a critical analysis acknowledges the efforts of the author in organizing the paper in an objective manner. The article focuses on he objective solutions that were in reforming the health care sector aimed at improving health care in Nova Scotia province in Canada. The article’s goals were elaborately stated, and the presentation of information and facts was commendable. For example, the paper focuses on the Phyllis Lytlle as a case study illustrating the roles of a public health care nursing during the early years of reforms in the health care sector. Additionally, the author fails to provide enough details regarding other sector players, which makes the text sound like an extrapolated biography of Phyllis Lyttle.