Challenges Faced by Community Nurses During Community Visiting

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Community Nursing
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10/3/2019

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 2
Community visiting and associated risk.............................................................................. 2
Strategies to address the issues......................................................................................... 7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................... 8
References..................................................................................................................... 9

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Introduction
Nurses are the core member of any healthcare team in a healthcare setting as they spend
most of their time with the diseased person and build a healthy relationship with him or her and
their family. The nurses are the key link between the patient in the community and health care
setting and share the essential information about the patient and health issues with the hospital
setting. The nurses like community health nurses also known as the public health nursing
combine the primary healthcare and the nursing practices in the community setting (Fraser,
Hutchinson & Appleton, 2016). They provide health facilities, preventive care, management, and
health education to societies or population. The community nurses also play an important role in
advocating individuals in society, confirming the safe and favourable environment, deterrence of
and neglect, policy restructuring, and community development. What community perform is
based on the communities they serve; less income, institute, and ethnically diverse communities
all have different roles. Nurses and midwives are mostly posted in the health care setting. A
community is a group of individuals in a particular location which comprise places where the
individuals live work and go to the educational institutes. Visiting communities sometimes
become problematic for them and they experience different issues which will be discussed in this
report (Holland, Olds, Dozier & Kitzman, 2018). In this particular assessment report, the
challenges community nurses experiencing community visiting will be discussed.
Community visiting and associated risk
Community nursing includes a diverse variety of nurses and other support employees
who provide their services in the community includes district nurses, intermediate care nurses,
community matrons and the hospital at home nurses. Community nurses face numerous

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challenges when trying to apply evidence-based, person-centred care (Choe, Kim & Lee, 2015).
The role, purpose and structures of the community nursing facilities varied significantly from
location to location and were established and centred on fulfilling the requirements of particular
communities. Additionally, several challenges associated with health and safety in the
community were recognized and were focused on the terrestrial, physical and house atmosphere
in which the community nurses provide their services. community nurses visit diseased persons
at their home to give different types of treatments for example chemotherapy to the people with
cancer, confirm diabetics get systematic doses of the insulin and assist in end life period as
painlessly as conceivable. They can visit the diseased persons several times a single day if
required and assist them to keep out of healthcare setting needlessly (Bae & Kim, 2015). Even
the nurses have such an important role and their demand has been increased in the past few
years, their number is yet declining. The demand is increasing because of the population of aged
people is growing with the lifestyle- associated conditions for example diabetes type 2, pressure
on the hospital beds and the drive to deliver more facilities outside a hospital. The community
nurses work as a link between the patient and the healthcare setting. They exchange information
about the patient's health and medication between these parties. They also educate families about
the health issue the patient experience, and how to implement self-care strategies. During
community visiting, nurses experience different types of challenges. Some of them are stress
and burnout, workload, environmental issues, physical injury, violence at work, and engaging
families in the intervention programs (Bowers & Redsell, 2017).
Stress and burnout
Stress is the most common problem for community nurse experiences during community
visiting, which result in nurses having an increased probability of taking additional time away