In today’s ever changing healthcare world, effective communication among healthcare team members is essential to provide safe and quality patient care. Conventional communication methods such as the telephone and the word of mouth are no longer the most effective ways of communicating important aspect of patient care. So health organizations are adopting communication systems which improve interaction among healthcare providers (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Recently my hospital adopted a new operating system called Care Logistics. Care logistics is a “…centralized care coordination model to…
Admit the patient using critical thinking skills to assess and prioritise nursing interventions related to Audrey’s.…
The evidence-based practice guideline that I chose is titled, “Myocardial Infarction,” written by the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim. The intended users for this guideline are health care providers and physicians. The target population is individuals with suspected or known myocardial infarction. The objective of this guideline is to “collect, summarize, and update the core clinical knowledge essential in general practice” and “describe the scientific evidence underlying the given recommendations.” (Finnish Medical Society Duodecim, 2008)…
N4465 Care of Vulnerable Populations COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT, ANALYSIS, and NURSING INTERVENTION Modules 1-3 (Weeks 1 3) Assignment Template Student Name Emily Scott…
Community health nursing has become a focal point in healthcare since the 1960s-70s when the civil right movement shifted the goal from a charitable concept to a political commitment in order to rectify racial injustices of the past (Stanhope and Lancaster, 2008). Many programs came about with the goal of addressing inequalities in the delivery of healthcare based upon social-economical status. Nurse practitioners then became an important factor in the delivery of healthcare, thereby affecting services offered in community health clinics which improved local accessibility to healthcare. (Stanhope and Lancaster, 2008). Many dynamic changes occurred since then with nurses making important contributions in disease prevention and health promotion in the community which countered the escalating costs of acute hospital care.…
The nurse is planning a wellness program aimed at primary prevention in the community. Which action should the nurse implement?…
So, the government and community organizations should come together to build strong policies and strategies to prevent the violence against women. There should be zero tolerance policy and nurse or other health professionals should screen for women abuse as they are accessible, enjoy a high degree of public trust, and work in a variety of settings. Also, the screening process provides increasing opportunity for women to disclose abuse and increasing opportunity for nurses to identify women who have been abused; it helps to identify the health impacts; afford opportunities to assist children of abused women and inform women about violence against women services and other options that are available (RNAO, 2005). Overall, this will help to create the healthy violence free community. However, nurses must develop skills to foster an environment that facilitates disclosure; they should know how to ask question and how to respond. Nurses should also develop screening strategies and initial responses that respond to the needs of all women taking into account differences based on race, ethnicity, class, religious/spiritual beliefs, age, ability or sexual orientation. Also, nurses must know the legal obligations when disclosure of abuse is made (RNAO, 2005). Further, health care organization should work with the community at a system level to improve collaboration and integration of services between…
Westbrook, L. O., & Schultz, P. R. (2000). From theory to practice: community health nursing in a public health neighborhood team. Advances in Nursing Science , 23 (2),…
Department of Health and Human Services: Healthy People 2020, 2016, Objectives: Access to Health Services, para 6) will improve the health status of the working poor in the Cedartown community. Nurses who work in all areas of community health can be valuable assets to achieving this objective. School nurses identify at risk children and provide parents with information on the available resources for the care. These nurses also provide health screening exams and assist with chronic disease management of the children in their care. School nurses should work closely with the other community resources to assure delay in care is avoided. The nurses go on truancy calls with the truancy officers and can identify living conditions requiring intervention by the Department of Family and Children Services. Additionally, Home health nurses are in the homes and provide a link to identifying health care needs. They can also recognize family needs other than the patient they are caring for. When identified, they can offer resource information and contact proper authorities of any perceived negligence or violence. Public health nurses are available to provide education and resource information. Although not part of the community nursing family, the nurses in ER’s and hospitals should contact social workers and provide community resource materials to the patients they care for. Another factor which can prove beneficial is to communicate with the patients about financial assistance programs, enrolling them in free prescription programs and assisting in applying for Medicaid. In the hospital environment, we find the patients do not always realize they are eligible for Medicaid or other…
This article provides a framework and guidelines for gathering information and treating the elderly. The article discusses the holistic approach of looking at patients and recording information for the care of older adults. The article focused on listening, observing and gathering information related to symptoms. They expand idea associated with gathering information about emotional and psychological needs of the patient. They also mention the use standardize assessment and how they can be beneficial for gathering necessary information.…
Many individuals like to think that violence does not exist, but it does and it is considered a “public health problem that has a substantial impact on individuals, their families and communities, and society, and it affects millions of people physically, mentally, and comes with a lot of economic consequences” (Understanding and Preventing, 2013, p. 2). This course also shed light other issues by reading articles on issues that might affect our jobs, LEOs, people department or the…
Low income housing is a unique geopolitical and phenomenological community that is within identified boundaries and a governing system that share common goals and interests. Within this type of community people may have barriers and challenges that they are facing every day to live comfortably in their habitat. The community nurse will assess the people of the community by using Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns and utilizing the nursing process. This method will provide an understanding of this particular type of community to impart interventions and resources in order to accommodate the community’s needs.…
This essay will discuss the plan of care I developed for Mr X while he was under my care in a post anaesthetic unit. It will discuss my nursing assessments, and what diagnoses I developed from this. It will then discuss the rationale behind my nursing interventions using relevant literature. My plan of care will be analysed throughout while identifying how my nursing care meets best practice guidelines.…
Meadows, P. (2009). Community Health Nursing. American Journal of Nursing, 109, 19. Retrieved from http://journals.lww.com…
For these reasons it is imperative for nursing to focus on community-based interventions related to increasing access and use of mental health services. Every community is unique, and for this reason, interventions need to be developed based on the communities’ specific cultural, ethnic, and racial composition.…