Community Nursing Essay

Nursing and their community Before I start on how nurses have their communities, I am first going to start on what community is. Community is “a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists” this means that a community can be anything. A community can be a community of students or a community of Catholics. A community can also be business…

reflection paper of the group project report of the Public Health and Community Health Nursing module. In this individual paper I am going to present my personal thoughts and feelings on the chosen topic, and discusses its implication for nursing practice. For this group project, I am required to work in a group and use the nursing process approach to identify nursing problems, develop three prioritized nursing care goals, propose nursing action to address the identified problems and suggest…

My current nursing path is leading me down community nursing therefore the research article gave me an insight on areas to focus to assist my patients to remain in the homes. As a student nurse, I found the OASIS assessment difficult to understand and I can see where true compliance may be difficult. Also, the documentation is only as good as those doing the assessment. I would not think that any professional would assess a client as at risk for fall and then note that they did not do anything…

Community and Public Health Nursing Outcomes Paper Community Health Nursing is a specialty of nursing that involves the combination of public, population focused practice with nursing sciences. Community Health focuses on identifying the needs of a community, and improving the collective health within a geographic area, (Allender, Rector & Warner 2014). The community health nurse promotes health, sanitation, control of disease, education, and organization. The community health nurse focuses on…

(prior to taking this course and prior to starting your clinical hours) on the role of Population and Community Health Nursing (PCHN)? My initial thoughts of Population and Community Health Nursing (PCHN) is that this nurse deals with more than just a patient medical diagnosis. From my readings I came to learn that this is very true. The PCHN not only deals with the patient but families in the community and in their own home environment. I learned a great deal from the YouTube video from…

Nursing in the Community Health care delivery in the United States has been under scrutiny both nationally and globally, and work is currently under way to improve the system. In 2010, President Obama signed into law The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which with time will restructure and rearrange the power of healthcare. The goal of this legislation is to transform healthcare from “late-stage, high intensity, illness focused, tertiary, interventional health service to a…

Challenges such as preventative care, healthcare accessibility, healthcare system abuse, and the need to reduce hospital readmissions are being examined for possible solutions. One of the solutions they discovered is the use of Community Paramedicine and Community Paramedics. Community Paramedicine is defined as, “An organized system of services, based on local need, which are provided by EMTs and Paramedics integrated into the local or regional health care system and overseen by emergency and…

be a hard project, but I have since begun to see the community from a different perspective. My first diagnosis for the community is; Ineffective coping, related to increase of poverty/lack of education secondary to loss of jobs and inability to pay for food and housing. Interventions: Find ways for the community to get together and learn how to deal with their problems and make change for each individual for the betterment of the whole community, have meetings at the local library. Find ways…

Connecting Assets with Partners to Initiate Community Health Program October 2015, the city of Charleston initiated a community wide assessment to assess the largest health risk to the people of our community. Concluding obesity as the highest of all health risks in the community. The leading causes of death directly related to heart disease, hypertension, or stroke, are all results of obesity (The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, 2014). According to the Journal of…

Cultural Challenges I Faced in My Community Health Project Having a culturally diverse group of a population, posed several challenges, that if not recognized early on, would critically impact the success of our community health program. As cited by Nies and McEwen (2015) it is important that community health nurses “understand the diversity or differences that occur in families, groups, neighborhoods, communities, and public and community health care organizations” (Nies & McEwen, 2015, p.…