Community health nursing and family nursing share a very close relationship. Community health services help both the individual and the family unity. Any nurse working in a community health center of any type will find him or herself often educating the patient along with their family members. In Miami, FL there are a number of different types of community health centers. These include but are not limited to home health care, community health clinics, and the public health department. These facilities and programs benefit the promotion of health for patients and their families.
The community I work in is Miami-Dade FL. The Florida department of health provide multiple services for this community. According to the Florida department of Health in Miami Dade County (2015), examples of community programs they provide are immunization clinics, clinical and nutrition services for family planning and primary care, and wellness programs that provide services such as smoke cessation, and psychological counseling. Public health nurses are working within these community centers providing family nursing health care to patients and their families. All the information to access these services are on the internet and it is a great benefit because today everybody has free access to the internet via your local library. Home health care is another type of community and family base nursing health care service. According to Medicare.gov (2015) the focus of home health care is to have injuries and illnesses cared for and in turn patients can care for themselves as they regain their independence. In Miami Dade, FL we have both privately owned and government owned home health agencies. Regardless of ownership Medicaid and Medicare provides lots of funding and therefor also regulates expected health care out comes and treatments. Families in the community benefit from these services because they are more cost effective then hospital stays. Patients and their families are able to get home health services in the …show more content…
These centers provide patients both long term and short term nursing care. Some centers focus on respiratory illness rehabilitation. Other nursing centers provide orthopedic rehabilitation, while others are for people that can no longer care for themselves due to age or loss of physical abilities. The community benefits from this because families are able to receive nursing care help. Families may not have the knowhow to care for the recovery or long term care of a patient, that is where family nursing comes in. Inside these facilities nurses teach not only the patient, but also the family as a whole about the needed patient treatments. Together the nurse, patient, and family go through the practice of providing patient …show more content…
An example of how this happens is educating the patent and their families about immunization schedules, proper nutrition, rest, exercise routines, use of seat belts, and abuse of drug and alcohol (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tobacco, & Hanson, 2015). Nurses find themselves teaching patients and their families at any given moment. This could happen during an emergency room visit, during the time of discharge, and in community health fairs to name a few instances. Patients walk away after reciting back information learned and with the information repeated on paper, and websites provided for reinforcement. Families benefit from this because there is a repetitive factor to this type of teaching that causes memorization and an increase in better patient
The community I work in is Miami-Dade FL. The Florida department of health provide multiple services for this community. According to the Florida department of Health in Miami Dade County (2015), examples of community programs they provide are immunization clinics, clinical and nutrition services for family planning and primary care, and wellness programs that provide services such as smoke cessation, and psychological counseling. Public health nurses are working within these community centers providing family nursing health care to patients and their families. All the information to access these services are on the internet and it is a great benefit because today everybody has free access to the internet via your local library. Home health care is another type of community and family base nursing health care service. According to Medicare.gov (2015) the focus of home health care is to have injuries and illnesses cared for and in turn patients can care for themselves as they regain their independence. In Miami Dade, FL we have both privately owned and government owned home health agencies. Regardless of ownership Medicaid and Medicare provides lots of funding and therefor also regulates expected health care out comes and treatments. Families in the community benefit from these services because they are more cost effective then hospital stays. Patients and their families are able to get home health services in the …show more content…
These centers provide patients both long term and short term nursing care. Some centers focus on respiratory illness rehabilitation. Other nursing centers provide orthopedic rehabilitation, while others are for people that can no longer care for themselves due to age or loss of physical abilities. The community benefits from this because families are able to receive nursing care help. Families may not have the knowhow to care for the recovery or long term care of a patient, that is where family nursing comes in. Inside these facilities nurses teach not only the patient, but also the family as a whole about the needed patient treatments. Together the nurse, patient, and family go through the practice of providing patient …show more content…
An example of how this happens is educating the patent and their families about immunization schedules, proper nutrition, rest, exercise routines, use of seat belts, and abuse of drug and alcohol (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tobacco, & Hanson, 2015). Nurses find themselves teaching patients and their families at any given moment. This could happen during an emergency room visit, during the time of discharge, and in community health fairs to name a few instances. Patients walk away after reciting back information learned and with the information repeated on paper, and websites provided for reinforcement. Families benefit from this because there is a repetitive factor to this type of teaching that causes memorization and an increase in better patient