Introduction
Community nursing is a nursing practice that utilizes the nursing theory and knowledge to improve the overall health of the community by preventing diseases and risk factors through educating, advocating and promoting health life style in the community. The community nurses put together plans that alleviate health or safety issues in a community, issues like immunizations, sexually transmitted diseases and obesity. Under the community health, registered nurses work in different areas of expertise such as primary care, nurse administrator, correctional nurse, occupational health facilities, public health and schools.
The purpose of this paper is to choose one area of community nursing as my future career, review article that …show more content…
For example, from their literature review, they indicated that population based health promotion is the best strategies to improve the population health but there are some barriers that influence the implementation of the population based health promotion.
Therefore, the main objective of their paper was to analyze barriers that might affect the engagement of PHN in the population based health promotion in Canada. They focused on three key concepts in their paper. They proposed three factors that can influence the engagement of the PHN in population centered health promotion as the part of the PHN jobs.
According to this article, they divided the barriers in to three levels; barriers at organizational level, extra organizational barriers and at individual level. The result of their research also indicated that all the three site respondents were similar in their response to the barriers regardless of their demographic and geographic …show more content…
The research also did not discuss other factors that can possibly affect the engagement of the PHN in the population based health promotion such as culture of the community, language and level of education in the population. It is imperative to repeat the research in different provinces that have different health authorities. It would also be important to compare between provincial public health nurses to see the influences of the mentioned
Community nursing is a nursing practice that utilizes the nursing theory and knowledge to improve the overall health of the community by preventing diseases and risk factors through educating, advocating and promoting health life style in the community. The community nurses put together plans that alleviate health or safety issues in a community, issues like immunizations, sexually transmitted diseases and obesity. Under the community health, registered nurses work in different areas of expertise such as primary care, nurse administrator, correctional nurse, occupational health facilities, public health and schools.
The purpose of this paper is to choose one area of community nursing as my future career, review article that …show more content…
For example, from their literature review, they indicated that population based health promotion is the best strategies to improve the population health but there are some barriers that influence the implementation of the population based health promotion.
Therefore, the main objective of their paper was to analyze barriers that might affect the engagement of PHN in the population based health promotion in Canada. They focused on three key concepts in their paper. They proposed three factors that can influence the engagement of the PHN in population centered health promotion as the part of the PHN jobs.
According to this article, they divided the barriers in to three levels; barriers at organizational level, extra organizational barriers and at individual level. The result of their research also indicated that all the three site respondents were similar in their response to the barriers regardless of their demographic and geographic …show more content…
The research also did not discuss other factors that can possibly affect the engagement of the PHN in the population based health promotion such as culture of the community, language and level of education in the population. It is imperative to repeat the research in different provinces that have different health authorities. It would also be important to compare between provincial public health nurses to see the influences of the mentioned