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Community Health Nursing Practice - PDF

   

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Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENTCOMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NURSING PRACTICE Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
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NURSING ASSIGNMENT1Community health related degrees are meant to help the individual interested inhealthcare to address the issue of a specific community and deal that with determination(Stanhope & Lancaster, 2015). There is variety of area that are being covered by the communityhealthcare professionals as public or private healthcare agencies hire them depending on theirability to withstand against the odds and help the community to come out of the current healthissues. I am interested in healthcare practice meant for meant for elders because according toUnited Nations (2015), the numbers of elders are increasing in USA and to deal with their healthrelated problems, I want to devote my learnings in helping them out. As the number of elderly people are increasing, formation of care homes have beenenhanced by the government so that hospital beds can be implied for other seriously ill patients,which leads the elders to deprived of the traditional healthcare service (Stanhope & Lancaster,2015). Therefore, community healthcare professionals should be able to connect to the eldercommunity in residential homes and for this they must possess a bachelor’s degree in healtheducation as well as a post-hiring training so that their skills can be enhanced. As the USA isfacing an aging population, more than 19% available positions are present for communityhealthcare nurses (United Nations, 2015). This available positions determines the lack of nursing professionals for elderlypopulation within the community and hence, this community is suffering from mental, physicaland emotional ailments affecting the overall wellbeing of the community (Brownie &Nancarrow, 2013). However, while working in the community, I have learned that the eldercommunity is much more concerned about their health and wellbeing and accepts all
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