Community Nursing Essay

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…

The Community Nursing (3QQ3) course has been an eye opening journey for me in to the world of community nursing. At the start of the initial course doing the practice tools I was quite apprehensive and had no idea what to expect. It was hard in the early few weeks to see how this course would evolve. But, as I became oriented and more familiar with the community the bigger picture began to form. Indeed, the windshield survey was a great tool to assess our community. This was an assessment unlike…

characteristics of the community health nursing #2 Apply the roles of the professional nurse to community setting #6 Assess factors that affect family health and its impact on individuals, families, and aggregates in their community #8 Assess a selected community and develop a plan to address health problems in the community Description: As I arrived to Lansdale Catholic high school I pulled into a large parking lot with a beautiful field out back. The high school was fairly small, 2…

Collaborating Community Nursing and Faith Based Nursing Faith based nursing was previously known as parish community nursing due to its origins from Christian faith (Blais, 2015). However, the term faith based nursing was coined in order to accommodate nursing from other faiths apart from Christianity. In particular, faith based nursing placing emphasis on care and health promotion which is within the beliefs, values and practices of the faith community, individual or family served. Faith…

CONCEPT 5: COMMUNITY DIAGNOSIS This concept is taken from module 5 of block 2 entitled “introduction to public health nursing” 5.1 Significance of the Concept This concept “community diagnosis is very important because it helps to find the common problems or diseases, which are troublesome to the people and are easily preventable in the community, it is a tool to disclose hidden problems that are not visible to the community people but are being affected by them, it helps to impart knowledge…

22 years. Nursing is my third profession. I was a schoolteacher and a consultant in training and development in my past life. When I got my diploma in nursing from Holy Name Hospital School of Nursing in Teaneck, NJ, I gave myself five years to link the three “me’s” into one “me”. On the fourth year of working as a staff nurse, I was offered a nurse educator position in the Education and Practice department in the Medical Center where I worked. I held the position for 19 years until I have to go…

author’s practice whilst in the community and reflects how the community team leader used her leadership and management skills to take action upon an event and empower the team members to undertake training and to improve their competence. The real names will be replaced with pseudonyms as per Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2015) confidentiality requirements. Mrs S, a 65-years old lady developed a leg ulcer on her right lower leg and was in the care of the community nurses after being…

Community health nursing is a unique field in the nursing profession that offers an opportunity to observe individuals as part of a community. Observation allows nurses to collect and analyze pertinent information that aids in the identification and prevention of illness as well as the promotion of health to individuals in a given location. Community Health also allows nurses to identify the specific healthcare needs of individuals after leaving an acute care setting. Being aware of the…

There are many ways in which I am comfortable with community health nursing but there are also ways in which I am uncomfortable. I am comfortable with the concept of community health nursing. I feel that I am able to assess a communities needs and do research into a community. I would not be comfortable with actually putting any plans I come up with into place though. I do not feel confident enough to recommend to a community what it needs to do to improve its health. I feel that I could come up…

Within a discourse community, communication is the cornerstone in the success of maintaining a community set on expanding and combining ideas together to expand the knowledge, values of their community and maintain a particular lexis or intercommunication (Swales 25-26). In a nursing community, nurses are the main junction of communication between patients and other medical teams. The strength of their communication depends on the accuracy of their content and the exchange of important…