Community Nursing

Community Nursing

Thesis Statement

The role of Community Nursing in Primary health care and impact on service delivery of community nursing.

Introduction

"Sickness" is what is happening to the patient. Listen to him. Disease is what is happening to science and to populations. (Weed, 1978, p. 205)

Nursing can be defined as, collaborative and autonomous care of people of all ages, groups, families and communities, in all settings, sick and well, this all is encompass by the profession of nursing. Nursing promotes the prevention of illness, health and disabled, care of ill and dying people. Promotion of a safe environment, advocacy, research, participation is shaping the patients and health policies and education and health system management are also key nursing roles.

In health care, nurses are considered the heart of it. They take different roles everyday in their job, an admirable nurse is always a great help of patients and doctors she serves. In charge of each patient, a nurse works under the directions of the doctors. Pertaining to treatments and medication, she follows doctor's orders and helps help doctors while performing certain procedures. She notifies doctors when patient's condition worsens, or if there is any emergency situation with any of the patients admitted in the hospital. Just like an auditor, a nurse keeps on ensuring that patients are all well examined and it is the most important aspect of exemplary nursing. Depending on the hospital policies, a nurse takes patients' examinations certain times throughout her shift, if there are any changes in the readings or the overall health of the patient and note the changes, if any. To the fullest, she carries out and makes a care plan for the patients (Kalish A. P. & Kalisch J. B., 2003).

If there is no nursing, the doctor would not know the condition of the patient through the night and before the morning, nurses' charts throughout the shift, and then doctors are able to see details about what happened. Any medications and treatments given are all noted down by the nurse. Also the improvement or declination of patient's health is measured by her. A nurse is responsible for the best care possible to patients and any change in any king of discrepancy, and then she should discuss it with the doctor. Nursing is not necessarily a medical role, but in reality many teaching goes into a nursing. A nurse teaches his patients about the progress of their health and ask them from time to time, if they need anything or checks whether the patient if taking medications or any at-home instructions. In health care, teaching plays a vital part. Primary Health Care is health care of basic level that usually have programs that are directed at the early diagnosis of diseases or say a disability, promotion of health and prevention of diseases. Primary Health Care (PHC) is provided to limited number of people as an ambulatory service to those living in remote or particular area. As provided by a family nurse, it includes continuing health ...