Essay About Working In The Community

During this unit, we learned about working with communities during a disaster. Part of working with these communities is communicating. I learned that there are two groups of people that must be communicated with while getting prepared for a disaster: the stakeholders/ community resources and the group of people being taught. While imagining teaching people in the community, I never quite grasped how large scale it could be. Stakeholders were always people involved with businesses, not nursing. However, through this unit, I could see the importance of having stakeholders. In the community, everything the public health nurse does revolves around partnerships. So, in order to effectively help people, a community nurse needs to use those partnerships in a way that will be beneficial for everyone involved. These partnerships can determine whether the program fails or succeeds. When the stakeholders feel part of the …show more content…
I think the most important thing is actually experiencing working in the community. While working in a community I can see more of people 's everyday needs. They usually only come to the hospital when they are really sick and we don’t get to see their smaller challenges. I think this would help me to focus on finding resources and really understanding my patients. I think that personally I need to work on my education skills. While in clinical, we had to educate our clients on their medications. I found it hard to prepare and know everything about the medication. It also felt awkward to be in a teaching position, while I knew so little. In order to perform an intervention and help people with challenging health problems, I need first be comfortable in my knowledge. I suppose this will come with time, but for I understand that it is a skill that is pinnacle to the nursing