NSG3PHN - Rural Nursing Assessment

10 Pages2527 Words207 Views

NSG3PHN Primary Healthcare Nursing (NSG3PHN)

Added on 2019-11-12

NSG3PHN - Rural Nursing Assessment

NSG3PHN Primary Healthcare Nursing (NSG3PHN)

Added on 2019-11-12

BookmarkRelated Documents

Running head: RURAL NURSE 1Rural NurseStudent’s NameUniversity Affiliation

RURAL NURSE 2Rural Nurse1. Select a specific primary health care (PHC) nurse role of interest to you (e.g. prison nurse, home based nursing, school nurse, women’s health nurse, men’s health nurse, sexual health nurse, substance use nurse, chronic illness nursing, rural health nursing, OH&S nursing, refugee nurse). Please ensure that the role selected is different from that you will experience on clinical placement. Describe the key attributes of this role and explain why it is considered a PHC nursing role. The specific PHC nurse role that has been chosen for this assignment is rural nurse. The key attributes of rural nurses are based on their abilities to determine communities’ health needs. Rural nurses should have a good understanding of survival rates, morbidity and thecreation of appropriate nursing care for persons and communities with diverse needs and resources. Another attribute is ability to identify particular needs and understand the constraints of limited resources to design care within local social norms. Besides, rural nurses might require resilience to offer care in remote and sparsely populated rural areas. Rural health nurses in Victoria noted that they assess, diagnose and treat minor patient illness manifestations. These nurses might provide the services independently or in collaboration with other medical professionals [ CITATION Can11 \l 1033 ]. Rural health nursing is considered as a PHC nursing role because the nurses play a fundamental role in enhancing health in the communities. Over the years, the rural health nursingrole has shifted focus towards population health and community-based care services as well as multi-disciplinary decision making. The rural nurses mostly make decisions in partnership with the communities they serve. In most cases, rural nurses deliver care to individuals requiring a

RURAL NURSE 3wide range of health care interventions. The common interventions are primary health care and even emergency care. In most rural settings, rural nurses deliver health services with the support of on-call or part-time medical professionals. In addition, rural health nursing is considered as PHC nursing role because the nurses focus on delivering preventive health services [ CITATION Foo15 \l 1033 ].2. Describe the general characteristics and relevant demographic information of the clientele this type of nurse is likely to provide health services for. If the clientele are a general population group, identify a geographical location such as a local government area (LGA) and discuss this in terms of the LGA data available. The clientele for this nursing role is the general public. Thus, the selected local government area (LGA) is the city of greater dandenong. In this LGA, there is high disease burden mainly infectious diseases and mental health. The most common illnesses are depression,anxiety obstetric complications, and tuberculosis. Regardless of the high disease burden, only 6% of the population present at emergency department while 7% is admitted in hospitals[ CITATION Che11 \l 1033 ]. The clientele consists of more men than women with a ratio of 4:3. The community has low level of English proficiency and secondary education achievement. There is higher unemployment and lower incomes than the rest of the population. Based on the recent statistics, there is a high level of unemployment, low income and lowhealth literacy among the selected clientele. About 59% of the population speaks a language other than English. It has been found that 14% of the people have inadequate English fluency. The median income per week is $34.3. The unemployment rate in the city of Greater Dandenong is 9.4%, which is higher compared to the city of Casey and metropolitan Melbourne. In

End of preview

Want to access all the pages? Upload your documents or become a member.

Child Adolescent and Family Centered Care

|10

|3013

|27

Training for Community Health Workers

|926

|10

Implications of Non-Communicable Diseases in Australia

|754

|163

Primary health care Assignment PDF

|18

|4716

|547

Primary Health Care: Assignment

|2035

|139

Lack of Medical Resources in Rural Areas: Challenges and Solutions

|12

|3024

|275

NSG3PHN - Rural Nursing Assessment