Reflective Essay On Community Nursing

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Reflective Essay on Community Nursing
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REFLECTIVE ESSAY ON COMMUNITY NURSING1
Community health nursing combines healthcare and nursing practise together in a
community setting. They deliver health amenities, intervention, care and health education in a
particular community, where they are involved. They have to help and provide development
in the community and ensure safety. A community nurse understands the best care that
needed to address any patient depending upon the resources available (Nies & McEwen,
2014).
I was involved in a community health care system during the final year of my nursing
course. The community where I was involved during my practice, aimed at investigating the
problems and providing proper care and treatment plan among the older people residing in
Singapore. During the initial days of my practice, I was a bit worried about my choice of this
field but slowly after researching and investigating the issues and the problems related with
elder patient, it gave me a confident and many areas where I can help this community. Older
aged people face any problem regarding their health and cognitive thinking and behaviour.
They are generally very lonely and are grasped by many diseases like chronic infections,
heart diseases, type 2 diabetes (Huang et al., 2014). The primary goal was to assess the health
issue, providing correct and proper knowledge about the condition faced by them, monitoring
the disease, testing therapies and medications to them. I was immensely happy to enrol
myself in this service and with helping the geriatric patient.
The advantages of this service community were immense and awful. We helped the
people to perform regular exercise, educating them with various knowledge of people faced
by them, advising them to take daily medications and to involve them with different
activities. There was another problem that is often faced by the patients, which we could not
address like common flu due to low immunogenic power among the older people. The care
encouraged them to fight with diseases and to be socially active. The only problem that was