Community Health Nursing: Kidney Disease in Indigenous Australians

The report presents a community health action plan targeting kidney disease within the Indigenous Australian population. It emphasizes health promotion strategies, including mass media campaigns and encouraging healthy lifestyle choices such as balanced diets and regular exercise. The plan also addresses promoting independence through adaptive equipment and supportive services. Furthermore, it outlines the importance of evaluating the program's effectiveness through health record analysis and free diagnostic campaigns. The report highlights the need for specialized healthcare facilities and equitable treatment for Indigenous Australians, supported by references to relevant literature on nursing and health promotion practices.

Task: Community Health
Nursing Action Plan

Table of Contents
Target Group....................................................................................................................................3
Health Challenge..............................................................................................................................3
Promotion and Maintenance of Health............................................................................................3
Promotion of Independence.............................................................................................................3
Evaluation of Strategies ..................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

Target Group
Indigenous Australians
Health Challenge
Kidney disease
Promotion and Maintenance of Health
Health promotion programs are required to be carried out for making people aware about
precautions to prevent kidney disease for remaining healthy. It is observed that Indigenous
Australians are more likely at risk of gaining kidney infections and problems. Kidney disease
refers to damage two the pair of kidneys or inability of not conducting their function of filtering
blood in proper way (Creamer and Austin, 2017). However, it is necessary to make an
appropriate health promotion program including supportive information to prevent the problem
of kidney disease in community of Indigenous Australians.
The mass media campaigns, health fairs and public services announcements can be used
to promote and maintain health the citizens in country (Townsend and Morgan, 2017). Moreover,
it includes to encourage them for taking balanced diet, prefer physical exercise daily, avoid long
term exposure to heavy metals including lead and other substances like fuels, solvents & toxic
chemicals as well as ignore abusing alcohol & drugs.

Promotion of Independence
The independent living create internal satisfaction and strengths to become disease free.
It includes to provide required tools and devices to people to conduct their daily routine work
independently for support which make them feel comfortable and improve their strengths to
remain well being. However, effective communication should be carrying out by care
professionals to encourage indigenous Australians to utilise adaptive equipments as well as tools
for living independently (Manning, Pfeiffer and Larson, 2016). Furthermore, promotion of
independence can be done with the help of installing adaptive equipments in ramps, shower
benches, electric hospital beds and toilet seat lifts.
At the other hand, it is essential to promote equality factors among care practitioners and
encourage them to give proper attention to individual belongs to community of Indigenous
Australians. Government authorities are required establish specific healthcare institutions for
these people to gain supportive technical aids and other clinical support for free of cost or at
cheap price.
Evaluation of Strategies
The evaluation of health promotion program is necessary to examine its effectiveness and
ensure positive impacts on selected community of Indigenous Australians. Initially, health
records can be evaluated in terms of analysing benefits or impact of promotional events to
determining health position of entire community of Indigenous Australians (Maijala,
Tossavainen and Turunen, 2016).
At the other hand, the Free Diagnosing campaign of kidney disease are helpful to
examine effects of health promotion events on people of selected group in a country. It is helpful
to collect data of patient suffering from kidney problem that can be compared with previous
patient information to evaluate the improvements in health status of overall community.

References
Books and journals
Creamer, A. M., & Austin, W. (2017). Canadian Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies
Identified: An Opportunity to Build Mental Health and Illness Skills and Knowledge.
The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. 13(5). e231-e236.
Maijala, V., Tossavainen, K., & Turunen, H. (2016). Health promotion practices delivered by
primary health care nurses: Elements for success in Finland. Applied Nursing Research.
30. 45-51.
Manning, M. L., Pfeiffer, J., & Larson, E. L. (2016). Combating antibiotic resistance: the role of
nursing in antibiotic stewardship. American journal of infection control. 44(12). 1454-
1457.
Townsend, M. C., & Morgan, K. I. (2017). Psychiatric mental health nursing: Concepts of care
in evidence-based practice. FA Davis.