NRS311: Nursing Assignment Report: Health Programs in Remote Areas

This nursing assignment report provides a comprehensive analysis of health promotion programs designed to improve the well-being of children and families residing in rural and remote areas. The report begins with an introduction to the significance of childhood development and the challenges faced by these communities, including limited access to healthcare and socioeconomic disadvantages. It then delves into the impact and roles of health promotion, primary health care (PHC), and partnership care models, emphasizing their contributions to child and family health. The report further examines the influence of specific health programs, such as the Allied Health in outback school program, on families and communities, highlighting the importance of addressing barriers to healthcare access. Additionally, the report discusses safe and effective evidence-based practices for children, adolescents, and families, providing a critical overview of various research and treatment approaches. The conclusion reiterates the crucial role of health promotion programs in addressing the health disparities faced by remote communities and suggests the adoption of technology and cost-effective approaches to enhance service delivery.

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Introduction
Childhood is considered as one of the important life stage which is essential for the
development of the children. It is basically a journey to attain quality life experience through
number of phases. Even though Australia is considered as one of the developed country in the
world but still it is having remote areas which are still under poverty line. Therefore, children
who are resident of these places are under continuous risk in terms of self-development, health
and poor education (Jansen, et al, 2012). It has been seen that all the remote area in Australia
mostly shares same kind of character which includes high risk to health, disease, shortage of
health providers, less availability of health services and disadvantages related to social-economic
pattern. These numbers are more evident in West New South Wales society because they have
very limited access to the health service facilities. In present time, people belonging to remote
areas are becoming more aware that if policy of the government cannot ally with health services
for children (Kochanska & Kim, 2013). Then there must be some new model, which will work
for offering high quality health service to this section of the population.
Impact and roles of health promotion, PHC and partnership care models
Adolescence is considered as one of the most important stage in the children life cycle.
This stage is mainly connected with the fast physical and social development which helps them
to adopt lifestyle, habits and behavior which actual decides their future. As per the study, it has
been found that the health promotion has very positive impact on the development of the
children from their childhood (Ghaddar, Valerio, Garcia & Hansen, 2012).). Childhood is always
considered as the important stage in which the child is able to develop their mental capability
with the help of effective health policies. Health promotion helps them to provide knowledge,
which are very essential for the family, which are living in remote area to offer proper care for
their children despite of financial issues.
Health promotion has very significant role in development of the whole community.
Families are important part of every community on global platform. Both community and
families share interconnected relation with each other in which their interchange values,
behavior, feeling and health pattern (Davis et al., 2013). At present health promotion are
introducing new strategy in their program which offers them cost effectiveness which act as
beneficial feature for the families which are living in remote areas. In addition to this health
promotion are also making use of partnership pattern to increase their operation boundary in
order to offer their service to every community of the Australia.
PHC, also known as primary health care is mainly connected to the health service offered
in rural area of the Australia. All individuals, families and communities are considered as
complete big family and are offered with well-being services in an approach (Basinga et al.,
2011). It includes services, which are connected with physical, social and mental health of the
society living in remote area of the Australia. In addition to this, PHC offers lifetime service to

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the society instead of offered them service for particular health problem. The foundation of this
PHC service is completely based on the right of equality and social justice to achieve top
standards related to health care. PHC service strictly follows article 25, which is fundamental
right. According to this right, every individual living on the soil of Australia has equal right to
live a standard life in terms of health and wellbeing (Kirmayer et al., 2011). This includes food,
shelter, cloths, medical care and all the necessary social services, which are very essential for the
development of a common family living in remote areas of Australia. In some case, PHC is also
referred as personal health care service in which every individual is offered personal care related
to some health issue. In addition to this kind of service is also connected to the low-income
population, which are struggling for basic human needs in Australia.
Partnership care model was first establish by American association of college of nursing
with the help of its practice partners. The purpose of this model was to create a new role in
nursing with the help of advance technology, innovative nursing system in order to give proper
response to complex problems. At present, this role is known as clinical nurse leader. As per this
model, nurses will be equipped with master level skills in order to integrator patient, make better
use of multiple discipline applicable in the health care to offer high quality health service
(Nursing, 2019). This model mainly focus on the partnership between education and creative
practice linked with the health care to increase the capability of the nurse and their related team
in order to attain improved results. In addition to this, Partnership care model also stress on
adopting change in the operation of health care system because present world is not stable and is
continuously offering various complex changes related to life of a common individual (Kuhlthau
et al., 2011). This partnership care model has been successful while implementing in various
countries and will display same kind of result in New South Wales of Australia. New South
Wales of Australia is suffering from health related issues
Impact of health program on families and community
A new health program was introduced in 2009, which was named as Allied Health in
outback school program. This program was also recognized as Allied Health student-Run clinic
initiative. The main feature of this program was revolving around community, government and
students-run clinics, so that a cross-section partnership can be formed in order to bring
improvement in the life of the children which belong to this zone (Sallis et al., 2012). Far West
local health district which belongs to NSW ministry of health and Far west Network which
belongs to NSW department of education and communities were the two initial partners of the
fro this program.
Impact of this program was that a complete exploration was conducted related to the
Children which are belonging to New South Wales are continuous under risk in terms of
development and growth (Jones & Lyle, 2015). It has been found out that many families living in
New South Wales were being deprived from the benefit of this health program because they
were facing challenge which were creating barrier for them. Their main challenge was related to

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travel vast distance because families belong to remote areas and have to travel to developed
cities to attain medical service as stated by Australian development index. Most of the families
living in New South Wales were not financially sound and because of this, they have to face
extensive waiting in the list of families who will become the part of this health program. In
addition to this, financial barriers have also restricted these section of people to accessing those
health clinics which are private (Garner et al., 2012). This program also explore that the people
associated with health in remote and rural areas were not qualified enough to meet the health
requirement.
This program played very important role in bringing development not only in health
section but also in mental thinking of these individuals which were belonging to remote and rural
areas of New South Wales. This program helped in bringing awareness in the minds of this
section by offering them quality education related to health. In this program, they have included
various health related experiences (Glanz & Bishop, 2010). In addition to this, they have also
conducted various training programs in order to provide hand on experience feel to the interested
applicants. During exploration, it has been found that these sections of people were very much
interested in becoming part of health service. However, it was not possible because of lack of
training. Offering health training was considered as one of the most important role of this
program because it help the New South Wales in eliminating the shortage problem of the health
workforce which in return helped this remote and rural zone in bringing improvement in children
health despite of their family financial issues. In fact, these families do not have to travel for long
distance and all the health service will be offered to them on their particular places.
Safe and effective evidence based practice for children, adolescents and family
Various researcher and scholars have worked a lot in bringing improvement in adolescent
health of the community. In initial phase, there were large number of health related program,
which were launched for the benefit of children, families, society in order to bring necessary
changes in the present health care system (Inman, van Bakergem, LaRosa & Garr, D. 2011). In
addition to this, efforts were made to eliminate the old school traditional health care system with
new advanced and innovate health care system that is based on cost effectiveness. These
researchers have also focused their interest on various implementing tools, which have help in
managing these health care programs in effective and efficient manner. It is not easy to
understand the difficulty level of these programs related to their different location in one place.
Health programs are truly connected with the interventions associated with the behavioural
pattern in adolescent health with effective and efficient approach.
As per the study, it has been seen that many health programs have been focused on the
mental health treatment for children and families have been seen as evidence base approaches.
Evidence base treatment are usually connected with the various researches which has been
connected for gathering data related to results which offer positive improvement in the health of
the children (Delgado et al., 2010).

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At present, people are becoming more aware about the benefits associated with the health
programs in terms of both education as well as practice. Now, information related to health are
being provided to bring improvement in present health condition as well as treatment associated
with health. Health programs play very significant role in the life of those families, which are
truly in need of health treatment for their children because of financial crises (Burke, 2010).
Attaining knowledge related to health is actually offering power to the families by which they
can ensure the safety and security of their children by forming a protective shield of health
practices.
Conclusion
Every developed or developing consists are having some remote areas in them and people
associated with these area are really struggling in their financial terms especially in New South
Wales. Financial capability is directly connected with the health development and growth of the
children because families are not capable enough to provide basic requirement like medical care,
food, clothes and other social services. In this situation, a health promotion program plays very
important role in improving the basic condition of families, which belong to these remote areas
of New South Wales in Australia. These health programs are using new strategy in which they
have adopted technology and cost efficacy approach in offering their service to the society.

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