Nurses also have a broad appreciation of the health needs of the public. The nurses' associations can serve as an essential tool for influencing policy, both nationally and globally. Also, the qualities and skills that nurses possess is an essential part of their nursing practice and are valuable in policy development. Nurses also understand the needs and expectations of society’s vulnerable populations. The nursing community in every country has gathered valuable knowledge regarding healthcare needs. Nurses are also well positioned to provide advice regarding accessibility to services and to understand relationships between health and social patterns (Benton, 2012). Nurses are also in the position to present position to offer…
Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2012). Public health nursing: Population-centered health care in the community (8th ed.). Maryland Heights, MO: Mosby Elsevier.…
Nursing in the community focused on disease prevention and providing care for the vulnerable such as immigrant workers and the poor. Lillian Wald, the first public health nurse in the United States, provided nursing care and education in poor communities located in New York City. Nursing concentrated on providing and educating the community on proper nutrition and sanitation in an effort to reduce the spread of disease.…
Before Florence Nightingale started to improve nursing as a practice public health care system was underdeveloped. People who were living in urban areas didn’t have access to clean water and proper sewage disposal. Most of the sick people were treated at their homes and cared for by their family members.…
Maurer, F.A., Smith, C.M. (2009). Community/public health nursing practice: health for families and populations. St. Louis, MO: Saunders Elselvier…
The following is a study of a family using the Friedman Family Assessment. “Public health nurses must have skills to move competently between working with individual families, bridge relationships between families and the community, and advocate for family and community legislating and influence policies that promote and protect the health of populations” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008, p. 600).…
Stanhope, M. (2012). Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community (8th ed.). Maryland Heights,, MO: Elsevier.…
In Ireland Public health nurses have been providing nursing and midwifery care to people and their families in the community for years. Public health nurses are viewed as possessing a wide range of skills and knowledge in caring for clients across their lifespan. Their role varies from routine visits to providing complex care to clients in their homes.…
What is the role of health care reform in shifting the focus from a disease-oriented health care system toward one of wellness and prevention, and how does nursing fit into this shift?…
Key health issues during the American Revolution, there were high rates of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, typhus, tuberculosis, malaria and infant mortality. Community and public health’s major goal was Improving sanitation among all areas in all communities. The AMA developed a committee to take surveys on sanitation and taking vital statistics. A few years later the Shattuck report would be published, and state and local health departments would be established from that. During this time, the role of community and public health services included “monitoring water quality, constructing sewers and a waterfront wall, draining marshes, planting trees and vegetables, and burying the dead” (Stanley & Lancaster, 2012,p.24). There were several local community and public health foundations during this time. The Ladies’ Benevolent Society of Charleston, South Carolina, provided charitable assistance to the needy, while in “Cincinnati, Ohio, the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity began a visiting nurse service”( Stanley & Lancaster, 2012,p. 24)…
Smith, M. a. (2009). Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations, 4th Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf version]. Retrieved on December 21, 2014 from http://pageburstls.elsevier.com/books/9781416050049/id/B9781416050049000081_p346…
Stanhope, M. & Lancaster, J. (2006). Foundations of nursing in the community (2nd ed). St Louis, MO: Mosby, Inc.…
The purpose of this community profile is to highlight the nurse's role and responsibilities in relation to facilitating health and wellbeing across the health, wellness, illness and age continuum and how this is achieved in a local geographically determined community (which for the purposes of this assignment, will be the town of Middlesbrough). Whitehead (1992) defined health inequalities as “differences in health that are unnecessary, avoidable, unfair and unjust.” These health inequalities are rife in Middlesbrough and, in turn have a knock on effect on the life expectancy of people living in the town which is significantly lower for both men and women than the national average (Middlesbrough Health Profile 2012, DOH). Middlesbrough is also the 8th most deprived local authority area in England according to Middlesbrough Councils Index of Multiple Deprivation…
Concern for health and wellness in the community has a substantial history in nursing. Home health, one component of community health nursing is rapidly growing due to the rising costs in health care. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the history of public health nursing, and the impact that home health has on the nursing practice.…
“The concept of person refers to the recipient of nursing, including individuals, families, communities and other groups, regardless of their physical, mental, and spiritual condition. As nurses we must know that each individual is unique with his or her own needs and desires. The environment is the place or community where care is provided. It refers to all internal and external conditions, circumstances, and influences affecting the person and describes the world a person lives in and interacts with. The World Health Organization 1948 has defined health as the degree or continuum of wellness or illness experienced by the person. Instead of having health as the level of wellness or illness, according to (Wu, 2008) Parse described health as a process of becoming as experienced and described by the person making the person the expert in his or her own health” (Wu, 2008).…