Assignment on Community Nursing
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Assignment on Community Nursing
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Running head: SPECIALITY NURSINGCommunity NursingName of the student:Name of the University:Author Note:
SPECIALITY NURSING1Nursing careers have gained the momentum and are in high demand than ever before.Depending on the increasing population of any country, the demand for the nurses also increasesproportionally. The demands are high for the skilled nurses that have the requisite training andadvanced education. The another reason for the high demand for these skilled nurses are the everincreasing costs of healthcare which employs the nurses on the frontline. Doctors now are morespecialized and spend less time with the patients, due to this nurses are taking up the active rolein the healthcare delivery. Community nursing is another specialized field that employs nurses towork with the patients and their families in order to maintain proper health, prevent disease andtreat the health associated problems (Maurer and Smith 2013). The main aims of the communitynursing involve maintaining a healthy lifestyle, patient independence and also proving theassistance and guidance to the carers. The study deals with the community nursing and its caredelivery to the patient. There are several nursing theories based on community nursing, however for this studythe theory proposed by Nola Pender is considered. The model focusses on specifically threeareas: behavioral outcomes, behavior dependent knowledge and its effect, patient characteristicsand experiences. The health promotion model focusses on the each and every individual andtheir personal behavioral characteristics and their subsequent actions depend upon theirexperiences. This theory effectively helps a community nurse to analyze the behavior of theindividual depending on the personal factors like biological, socio-cultural and psychological.Knowing these factors actively help in monitoring an individual’s behavior. Within thebehavioral characteristics the community nurse can identify the probable barriers in the deliveryof the healthcare, and the positive outcomes that can be achieved from a particular health
SPECIALITY NURSING2behavior. All these activities amalgamated together help to promote the positive health behaviors(Alaviani et al. 2015). Nursing theories are a set of relationships and definitions and assumptions that help todepict a medical scenario in a systematic way. Nursing has its linkages with the several aspectslike the patient/client, health, environment and nursing itself. Nursing theories guides a nurseduring a nursing practice and the practice in turn generates knowledge; theories help to describenursing; enables the nurses to what they intend to do and how they will perform it. There areseveral types of nursing theories like the grand theories which are complex and broad;descriptive theories which are elementary level of development of theory; middle range theoriesaddress the reflective practices and specific phenomena; prescriptive theories are nursinginterventions and its effective prediction of the consequences (Cowden and Cummings 2012).Theories are used because it reduces the gap between the research and the theory; theory acts asa guidance in the usage of techniques and ideas; nursing theories also helps in reframing thethinking of a nurse. Thus to correlate nursing theory with the nursing specialty like communitynursing, first of all the role and duties of a community nurse needs a clear understanding(Harkness and DeMarco 2016). The functions of a community nurse are: care provided to apatient after hospital stay; generalized nursing care provide to the patient suffering from chroniccondition; hospital type care to the patient outside the hospital environment; palliative nursingcare to the patients who are suffering from life limiting illness and at the same time requirehealth care outside the hospital; management of wound. For correlation, nursing theory helps thenurse by the following ways: patient data organization, understanding and analysis of patientdata, nursing interventions decisions, patient care planning, prediction and evaluation of theprobable outcomes of patient care (Reuben and Tinetti 2012).
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