The purpose of this assignment is to provide students with a better understanding of the care a family nurse provides within many facilities in a community. To demonstrate, I will am using my own community Franklin County for this paper. Home visiting programs, community nursing centers, public health departments, home education, and community education are going to be addressed. Hence, Nurses have been involved in the community for years, and have been responsible for piloting many projects geared towards families within their homes. In their capacities, community/public health nurses play several roles. These include, but are not limited to, health educations, advocacy, and facilitation of access to health resources, assessment, assurance, …show more content…
They are open Monday through Friday, and also take walk-in patients for certain services. It is made up of a range of programs providing clinical, environmental, health promotion, and population-based services. Their mission statement states they protect health, and improve lives in our community. The annual budget of the Columbus health department is $46 million (City of Columbus, n.d.). As a result of the annual budget the Columbus health department can provide free services, or services that are based on an individual’s income. For example, a young adult without health insurance making minimum wage thinks he has an STI is able to be seen, and treated for free. Another example of a service provided by the Columbus health department is population-based with reference to something like bed bugs. Hence, public health departments serve the needs of individuals and families across the life span in both center- and home based- based models, and more recently, in acute care settings in the United States. These departments include services to vulnerable groups, such as pregnant and childbearing families, children with special needs, people who are at risk for/diagnosed with infectious diseases, and chronic illnesses (Kaakinen et al., …show more content…
Teaching and health information can be used to discuss immunizations, nutrition, rest, exercise, use of seat belts, and abuse of harmful substances, such as alcohol and drugs (Kaakinen et al., 2015). The community nurses where I live refer families to programs based on their needs. For example, a family with obese characteristics may receive a referral the local neighborhood YMCA for an exercise and healthy cooking class. The family will benefit from this because it will help change their
Licensed practical nurses (LPN 's) fill an important role in modern health care practices. Their primary job duty is to provide routine care, observe patients’ health, assist doctors and registered nurses, and communicate instructions to patients regarding medication, home-based care, and preventative lifestyle changes (Hill). A Licensed Practical Nurse has various of roles that they have to manage on a day to day basis, such as being an advocate for their patients, an educator, being a counselor, a consultant, researcher, collaborator, and even a manager depending on what kind of work exactly that you do and where. It is the nursing process and critical thinking that separate the LPN from the unlicensed assistive personnel. Judgments are based
Maurer, F., & Smith, C. (2005). Community/public health nursing practice: Health for families and populations (3rd ed.). Retrieved from http://books.google.com
This is further corroborated by Ingleton et al (2011), who believed that the need for community-based palliative and end of life care will increase rapidly over the course of the next 20 years because of increasing emphasis on shifting the delivery of care out of the hospital and into primary care which invariably leads to changes in the role of Community Nurses and in the demands on their time. Consequently, the above mentioned changes will place tremendous pressure on community nursing services and family carers (Department of Health, 2006a and Department of Health, 2006b)..
Nies, M.A. & McEwan, M. (2015). Health a community view. In Community/public health nursing: promoting the health of populations (6th ed.) (p. 1). St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier.
Many people in our community think being a registered nurse simply means having the degree, working in a hospital and getting paid. Being a registered nurse implies all of these plus many other duties and responsibilities for taking good care of patients and their families as well as a good professional relationship with other health care personnel. In order to assess the professional role of a registered nurse in today’s health care system, one can ask questions from the nurse or the people they work with, or read some professional writings about what they do either our communities and hospitals.
The nurse in today's society provides different services to the healthcare community. Taylor (2011) lists the common roles of the nurse as follows: communicators, educators, researchers, advocates, collaborators, and caregivers. The communicator role of a nurse involves “effective interpersonal and therapeutic communication skills to establish and maintain helping relationships with patients of all ages in a wide variety of healthcare settings” (Taylor, 2011, pg 11). Patients look to nurses for information and communicate better with them because they are the most hands on role in the healthcare setting. As an educator, the nurse is responsible for assessing and evaluating individualized teaching plans for patients and their families (pg
Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2008). Public health nursing: Population centered health care in the community (6th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.
Saying that you are a registered nurse is a broad statement. Registered nursing is a job that has many aspects. Registered nurses work in many different settings and they carry out many different routines. As a registered nurse you could be exposed to many different opportunities. My goal is to be a registered nurse but, I need to learn a lot. Becoming a being a registered nurse requires a lot of hard work and effort but, if I focus on my goal I will be able to achieve it.
The following essay is a reflective paper on an event that I encountered as a student nurse during my first clinical placement in my first year of study. The event took place in a long term facility. This reflection is about the patient whom I will call Mrs. D. to protect her confidentiality. Throughout this essay I will be using LEARN model of reflection. I have decided to reflect on the event described in this essay since I believe that it highlights the need for nurses to have effective vital signs ‘assessment skills especially when treating older patients with complex medical diagnoses.
In health care, there are many different approaches throughout the field of nursing. When considering the field of family nursing, there are four different approaches to caring for patients. This paper will discuss the different approaches along with a scenario that covers that approach. The approaches that will be discussed include family as a context, family as a client, family as a system, and family as a component to society. Each of these scenarios are approach differently within the field of nursing.
Lundy, K. S., & Janes, S. (2009). Care of Communities and Populations. Community Health Nursing: Caring for the Public's Health (2nd ed.). Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Journal of Community Health Nursing, 20(2), 119-132. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3427937 Serigne M. Ndiaye, Linda Quick, Ousmane Sanda, Seydou Niandou; The value of community participation in disease surveillance: a case study from Niger, Health Promotion International, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1 June 2003, Pages 89–98. Retrieved from
School health nursing is an important part of the community and benefits the health and well-being of its aggregates. The educators and the health professionals are intertwined; both are educators both influence the ability for the aggregates to learn. The school nurse is the link for identifying and addressing health issues. The school nurse has the ability to impact healthy behaviors that extends to adulthood (Alexandropoulou, 2013). The school nurse has the inherent ability to promote and manage a positive healthy prospective between the schools, the parents and the community. Children living in poverty are increasing from urban to rural communities limiting their access to health care. Schools are established and an institution of learning it presents the opportunity to reach a great number of children. The school nurse has the chance to promote and educate health and healthy habits to the school aged child (Nies & McEwen, 2011).
Community Health is the study and development of health in different communities. Community health tends to focus on area which includes primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare. It is also related to policies and a broad health services ranging to prevent diseases, promote health, and to rehabilitate the community. This is dedicated to individuals belonging to a local community and also the features of this community and its environment. With this community health nursing can be explained as a practice of taking care of the family from the child trough to the elderly on how to live a healthy and productive life, they provide a continuous service making sure that the physical and mental state of all individuals is good and also not prone to any chronic or risky diseases. Community health nurses are not restricted to the care of a particular age or diagnostic group. Contribution of all clients of health care are encouraged in the development of community activities that contribute to the promotion, education, and maintenance of good health. These activities require full health programs that pay special attention to socio-ecologic controls and specific populations at risk. Community health nurses are valued for their adaptive and ability to provide care in many ways, including community health clinics, churches, homeless shelters, and schools. Their role is to provide full care to patients within their homes, at organized events such as health fairs, and at agencies and institutions serving people who have particular health needs. They also lead or work together with other health care professionals, organizations, political figures and members of the community to promote health for their community. They develop and apply corporat...
Three years ago I came to this great country following a goal, a dream, and looking for new opportunities. I never thought that today I would be studying nursing. Honestly, these ideas never crossed my mind after having been a doctor for 20 years in Cuba. Being an immigrant brings overcome barriers where there is no time for fears and doubts, which only have to pursue a particular aim for which to fight relentlessly. Few times we find good opportunities to study, and this one, in particular, I would not lose it. Studying nursing for me would be like starting over, although not entirely, this would allow me to get closer to what I 've always liked, patient care. Simultaneously, it filled me with many questions: Classes in a foreign language would allow me to interact with teachers and at the same time learn from them? How lessons would be taught in the college courses? How would be the interaction with the classmates?