Community health nursing is another name of public health nursing.community health nurse will be able to play a vital role for prevention of diseases in community.working in community is very much different than working in acute care hospitals.community health nurse will have the field exposure much for determination of health of community people.they can play several role such as- prevention of diseases,as a health educator she can give health education to the community people abou how to increase quality of life,as a researcher she can assess health status of the community people and can collect vallidate data for doing research etc.
Nurses may move from working with patients and families in acute care hospitals to working with...
13. Nurses, Patients, and Families: Caring at the Intersection of Health, Illness, and Culture Acute and Chronic Illness Adjusting to Illness Illness Behaviors
Nurses need a strong background in pathophysiology and assessment when caring for patients and families. What is different about your skills in these areas now? How are you utilizing pharmacology and nutritional information to better care for patients?
Now, hospitals substitute non-nurses for nurses to perform all but the most technical tasks. What are the implications for the nursing profession? Have nurses lost their traditional role of hands-on patient care and, if so, is that to the profession’s and the patients’ advantage or disadvantage?
Nurses must be able to knowledgeably plan services for individuals, families and the community. In order to effectively plan, it is essential that you are aware of the resources specific to the community a client resides in to allow for identification of health-related resources and to understand gaps in services. A windshield survey is conducted from a car and provides a visual overview of a community. Conditions and trends in the community that could affect the health of the population...
You are the vice president of Patient Care Services for both acute care hospitals. Who would you identify as stakeholders in the implementation and why? What steps would you take to minimize user resistance?
Facilities and programs other than acute care hospitals are much more numerous and arguably have a greater effect on health status, but acute care hospitals remain the focus of attention. Why is this? What are the desirable and undesirable aspects of this attention from the standpoint of the acute care hospital provider and the consumer of health services?
Other than acute care hospitals, facilities and programs are much more numerous and arguably have a greater effect on health status, but acute care hospitals remain the focus of attention. Why is this? Explain what are the desirable and undesirable aspects of this attention from the standpoint of the acute care hospital provider and the consumer of health services.
ED nurses may provide care for patients with cold-related injuries. Discuss presentation and appropriate nursing care for these patients. ED nurses may also provide care for patients with heat-related illness. Discuss presentation and appropriate nursing care for these patients. Explain the disaster triage tag system (triage during mass casualty conditions). Include specific injuries appropriate for each category. Explain the ED three-tiered triage system (triage under normal conditions). Include specific injuries appropriate for each category. What are the priorities for discharging...
ED nurses may provide care for patients with cold-related injuries. Discuss presentation and appropriate nursing care for these patients. ED nurses may also provide care for patients with heat-related illness. Discuss presentation and appropriate nursing care for these patients. Explain the disaster triage tag system (triage during mass casualty conditions). Include specific injuries appropriate for each category. Explain the ED three-tiered triage system (triage under normal conditions). Include specific injuries appropriate for each category. What are the priorities for discharging...
Essay - Answer all questions posed! 190-200) Nurses are confronted with multiple barriers to quality care when working in the multicultural environment. The relation of cultural differences to diverse health care outcomes is clearly evident in research. Nurses today are providing care, education, and case management to an increasingly diverse patient population that is challenged with a triad of cultural, linguistic, and health literacy barriers. For these patients, culture and language set the context for the acquisition and application of...