Question

I faced many challenges: I can either pay the medical insurance bill or my rent. Where I and my daughter will live is more important to me than medical bill. I can afford to opt out of medical insurance and be subjected to the fine of $12, which I can afford. In addition, since I have to feed myself and my daughter with the little money I have, I must be smart about it. Since I cannot afford the healthy foods like vegetables, fruits, etc. , I rather go for cheaper and unhealthy foods like hot dogs, noodles and so on. I will not enroll her in after school program to save money. The public nurse could intervene by providing the link to other community resources like where people can get free healthcare services. The public health nurse can also intervene by providing information of local farmer market where fruits and vegetables are cheaper. The public health nurse can also provide information about scholarships in the community where my daughter can be admitted to the extra curriculum activities e.g. Girls’ On the Run.

Please Review the Minnesota Wheel and  choose one of the 17 interventions that a public health nurse could use to address the problem that is identified above. Briefly describe your hypothetical intervention, name one of the three core functions that the action addresses and discuss how it addresses that core function.

Answer 1

The public health nurse work with communities, individuals and families. Regardless of how they work and with whom they work they will follow the set of core interventions and go with it.

There are 17interventions for the public health nurse to practice it such as surveillance, screening, outreach programming, health teaching, counselling, social marketing, counselling, advocacy, community focus and so on out of these the best intervention for the above stated problem would be counselling and health teaching.

The teaching on various community available services for health can be discussed with provision of nutritional schemes from the government. The core function of the counselling may include screening whether the child id vulnerable for any of the nutritional problems, her schooling services. Orientation to the father about her role and goals, assessing completely by the subjective and objective data with proper organization, validation and documentation of the data. The action of this address as a core function because any process to take place sequencing plays an important role were it has to go step by step in order to achieve the proper results.