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Running head: NURSING AND THE COMMUNITYNursing and the communityName of the student:Name of the University:Author’s note
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1NURSING AND THE COMMUNITYCommunity health services are essential in local regions to encourage and supportresidents to remain healthy and prevent transmission of disease in the community. It plays a keyrole in meeting health care needs of uninsured people and the community health workers play anactive role in meeting the unique needs of the communities. They are involved in creatingconnections between health care system and people at risk of disease, managing care forvulnerable group, determining health insurance plan and collaborating with health care providersto understand community health needs (Payne et al., 2017). This essay provides a detaileddiscussion on the function of Kyneton District Health service and the type of service provided bythe service along with typical patient population covered by the service. It also compares the roleand responsibilities of the nurse in the practice setting and the type of support available forLGBTI person in the community health setting. Kyneton District Health (KDH) Service is part of the Macedon Range community and itprovides local health service to around 42, 000 people living in Shire and surrounding area. Thecore vision of KDH is to provide positive experience during care to all patients and keep track oftheir performance on a regular basis (Kyneton District Health Service :: Home, 2017). KDH alsowork in partnership with the Cobaw Community health service where staffs provide variety ofcommunity health service to residents living across Macedon Shire (Cobaw Community HealthService, 2017).A wide array of service is provided by KDH such as acute services, allied healthservice, care in home, maternity care, surgical service and urgent care centre. In the area of acuteservices, KDH supports local hospitals to provide variety of specialty services. The pharmacydepartment, the North West Dialysis service, radiology and pathology service are also part of theacute care service at KDH. The Macedon Range Community nursing team also delivers othercare programs such as district nursing, pose-acute care, transition care program, hospital in the
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2NURSING AND THE COMMUNITYhome, palliative respite care and life limiting illness care. The community nursing team plays agreat role in chronic disease management, medication management, pain management, woundcare and developing care plans (Kyneton District Health Service :: Acute Services, 2017). KDH is mainly serving the residents living at the Macedon Ranges Shire Council. Thecouncil is located in central Victoria and has a population of about 47, 512 people according to2016. The review of the population profile at Kyneton district has revealed that there are lowproportion of pre-schoolers in the district and high percentage of people at post retirement age.Hence, considering the age structure of the community, the demand for age based service is high.Therefore, My Aged Care is also a part of the care program of KDH that provides the bestservice to meet the health needs of older people in the community. Another important service ofKDH is the Treehouse program, which is an innovative social program that helps to providehealth care service at home to people living with chronic or life limiting illness. This has helpedmany people to become independent and return to meaningful activities in life (Communityprofile | Kyneton District | profile.id., 2017).Kyneton District Health Service has been able to achieve their vision because of thecontribution of nurses in the community setting. With the support of the KDH communitynursing team, KDH has been able to provide health care service at home and other services likepalliative and respite care. The district nurses have the responsibility to treat and manage healthof people of all ages and they provide quality support to patients by visiting their home. One ofthe advantages of the district nurse is that they are qualified and well-trained in their work thusbringing efficiency in the service. The nurses also have the duty to respect patients, engage themin decision making, maintain privacy and confidentiality of patient’s information and advocatefor the care of patient (Kyneton District Health Service :: Care in Your Home, 2017). These role
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3NURSING AND THE COMMUNITYand responsibility are similar to the NMBA standards of registered nursing practice as itmentions about engaging in therapeutic and professional relationship and providing safe andresponsive quality nursing practice. Hence, the responsibility of the district nurse to advocate forpatient is similar to NMBA standard 6 which states that registered nurse must delegate andimplement ethical goal directions actions (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia -Registered nurse standards for practice, 2017).The registered nurse at KDH has been found to cover a variety of roles such as painmanagement, chronic disease management, medication management and many other roles.Although other collaborative partners like health care professional and regional health carepartners also plays a key role in providing community care, however majority of service isprovided by district nurse. Their experience and expertise has helped in successfully integratingwide variety of service and their main focus is to deliver the best care to patient (KynetonDistrict Health Service :: Home, 2017). This responsibility has been fulfilled by buildingeffective therapeutic relationship patients. Research literature has also given lot of evidenceregarding building therapeutic relationship with patient. For instance, Sherwood & Zomorodi,(2014) has defined that respect, genuineness, empathy, active communication, trust andconfidentiality are the underlying principles of therapeutic relationship and these values are alsoa professional responsibility of nurses working at KDH. The core purpose of therapeuticrelationship is to support people in a way to promote healing and enhance functioning in patient.The district nurse at KDH have gone a step ahead to fulfill this requirement by going to the homeof chronically ill patients to provide care (Kyneton District Health Service :: Care in Your Home,2017). The success of the district nurse in building capacity is also dependent on level of supportprovided by the Kyneton District Health Service. This is also explained by Bridges et al., (2013)
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