Nursing Concepts: Community Health Nursing: General Nursing

Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management, and education are also key nursing roles. The importance of epidemiology is that Epidemiologists identify and measure the health events within the population. This scientific field develops a variety of models of how an event may occur, in order to recognize and understand those events on a higher level. Epidemiology is really a community health, problem solving process, which is similar to other processes used in healthcare.

The households involved added up to an estimate of 22.9 million households (Hughes, 2008). Additionally, the healthcare delivery model highlights that it is important for the nurses or doctors involved to address what should be done by both the patient and the caregiver for the improvement of skills and knowledge in regard to providing healthcare (Hughes, 2008). Details of the instructions provided by the nurse or the doctor should be taken into account to avoid activities contributing to low qualities of health care. In conclusion, care giving is a universal obligation associated with the acts of love and third party responsibility. One of the basic provisions of the healthcare delivery model is to address the quality of health and care services provided and the affected parties are the caregiver and the patient which makes the model a patient and caregiver centered.

The National Health Service Corps works to build healthy communities by providing quality health care to those from underserved populations. I find that this mission aligns well with my beliefs, values, and skill sets. I am dedicated to contributing to this mission because I feel that my purpose in life is to help others by working as a health care provider. I want to work to build healthier communities in our country. As a future clinician, I am dedicated to making an impact by providing primary care services to those from underserved communities with limited access to health care.

Adams, it is important to address all areas from a holistic standpoint. This would include psychosocial, environmental and medical interventions. While providing care it is important to remember Florence Nightingale’s goal of nursing is to “assist the patient to regain “vital powers” by meeting their needs, which in the end puts the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon.” (Smith & Parker, 2015). Nightingale believed that nurses contribute to restoring health in a direct and indirect way by the management of patient’s environment (Smith & Parker, 2015). As the assessment begins for Mrs. Adams there are many things that need to be addressed.

From OBRA-87, I learn that health care providers need to partnership with nursing, activities staff, and other departments in order to provide effective services to patients when working in nursing home facilities. I also learn that Ross’s five stages technique can help patients to reestablish the likelihood of an automatic, habitual response, and restore environmental interaction. By utilizing the Ross’s five stages method in certified nursing facilities, residents will be able to maintain and improve their ability to complete

Healthy aging with the development and care of ideal mental, social, and physical well-being and function in older adults is a primary concern. This is accomplished when the older population is safe, promote health, and use health and community programs to prevent health problems. This elderly vulnerable population is a perfect opportunity for the Community nurse to interact with and provide services too. Public health nursing can preserve the health of the community and neighboring populations by concentrating on health promotion and health care of individuals and groups within the community. Capron Illinois is just one present poverty-stricken area where intervention is needed to protect this fragile elderly population.

The Purpose of The Theory The purpose of Henderson’s theory is to give the principles that help construct practice and to generate further nursing knowledge. Considering doing so, it helps nurses to understand their purpose and role in nursing in the healthcare setting. Henderson believes that the unique function of the nurse is to help the person sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (to a peaceful death) that he would do unaided if he had the strength, will or knowledge. In doing so will help him gain independence as quickly as possible (Burggraf, 2012). The Scope or Level of theory The scope or level of theory used by Henderson was a grand theory.

Health Promotion is vital part of the nursing profession, and is the first standard, in the Canadian Community Health Nursing Professional Practice Model & Standards of Practice. The nursing profession shares the same view on the concept of health promotion as the World Health Organization (WHO). Health promotion is defined by Community Health Nurses of Canada (CHNC) as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health" (Community Health Nurses of Canada, 2011, pg. 10) Health Promotion in nursing focuses on education, action, and advocacy to build capacity, and empowerment in both individuals and communities in order to facilitate individual and community control, political efficacy, improved quality of community life and social justice. (Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice, 2008, pg.

This action is supported by the principle of rights and participation in the Social Justice Framework; ‘1.3. respects all cultures and experiences, which includes responding to the role of family and community that underpin the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of other cultures’ in the Code of Ethics; and ‘2.4. provides support and directs people to resources to optimise health-related decisions’, ‘3.2. provides the information and education required to enhance people’s control over health’ and ‘4.1. conducts assessments that are holistic as well as culturally appropriate’ in the Registered nurse standards for practice (NMBA 2008 p. 1; NMBA 2016, p. 3-4; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine n.d., p.

[8] This paradigm is useful as it enables practitioners to proactively and purposefully put into action a connected system of values and principles across the phases of a health promotion process. The principle that authorises the value of holistic health is that health incorporates interrelated dimensions of spiritual, mental, social and physical health and wellbeing. [8] Moreover, key values and principles the Red Lotus model includes are ensuring that needs assessment processes incorporate the perspectives of all stakeholders and prioritising work with communities that are most marginalised, vulnerable, disadvantaged

The operation of promoting the health of unique, families, collection, and communities is an integral component of professional nursing practice (Iwasiw & Goldenberg, 2015). It supplies a philosophical and theoretical foundation for understanding family and community health problems and