Public Health Nursing: Nursing Associate Role in Postnatal Care Study

This case study explores the role of a nursing associate in public health, focusing on the care and support provided to Hayley Brown, a patient struggling with alcoholism and postnatal depression. The study highlights the significance of nursing associates in promoting wellness and preventing health issues, particularly within vulnerable populations. It emphasizes the application of NMC standards and the 6C's (care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment) in delivering quality care. The case study reviews Hayley's complex history, including domestic abuse and family separation, which contribute to her current challenges. Various health promotion initiatives are discussed, such as creating a supportive environment, raising awareness about healthy lifestyles, and implementing maternal mental health programs, to improve Hayley's health outcomes and reduce the impact of postnatal depression and alcoholism. The study concludes by underscoring the importance of proper care, medication, and awareness programs in achieving better health and quality of life for patients like Hayley, with the nursing associate playing a pivotal role in ensuring these interventions are effective and patient-centered.

Public health

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Nursing associates usually work with people of all ages. They show a variety of aspects with
their work performance in setting in health and social care. The role majorly contributes towards
the core work of nursing, freeing up registered nurse associate to focus on complex clinical care.
It also shows a standing part that helps provide a progressive path to graduate nursing. It is
introduced to provide quality health and respect to the people who require health support. In this,
public health is defined as the art and science which is helpful in the prevention of disease and
promoting life and health through the systematic efforts of society (Astle and et al., 2021). Public
health usually promotes the welfare and well-being of the entire population. In this project, the
case study is derived based on Hayley brown, who requires nursing support and care to reduce
the associated complication and consequences. Hayley's brown face issue regards alcoholism and
postnatal depression. Moreover, nursing associates play an influential role by using their skills
and knowledge. The NMC standard is also helpful to provide them the vision for accomplishing
the driven roles and responsibilities (Driscoll and et al., 2019).
MAIN BODY
The role of a nursing associate is to work within a healthcare setting and provide support and
care to all age groups of people as per their needs and requirement based on health support. In
this, the nurse associate usually assesses and observes the patient and helps the healthcare
professional, including the doctor, create the patient's health care plan. The nursing associate also
carries out those care plans with medication and treatment administration. Moreover, the nurse
associate uses a range of medical apparatus and equipment. Both concentrated on monitoring the
patient and evaluating performing treatment (McKay and et al., 2019).
Along with scope of integrity, expertise, respect and compassion that based on code, the
standard of proficiency for nursing the nursing associate and the standard for the pre-registration
nursing associate program. The role of nursing associated is linked with public health. It makes
sure that any healthcare professional entering this field needs to possess some skills and
knowledge that are required in order to deliver care for people's health effectively. Then their
purpose is to promote wellness and prevent the issue of health regarding disease and or any
illness (Esmaeelzadeh et al., 2018). The nursing associate with public health focuses on teaching
at-risk individuals and groups how to live healthy lifestyles and prevent the disease by restricting
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hazards or harm exposure. While taking the contrast of Hayley Brown, she also needs support
and care from the nurse associate.
The preceding discussion is based on the Hayley Brown family, which indicates that the
significance of nursing associates plays a vital role in the development of quality of health. Here,
some of the potential issue faced by Hayley includes proper care and ensuring diet intake. There
is also a need to provide the healthcare need and medication intake to help reduce postnatal
depression and alcoholism (Park et al., 2017). Moreover, the previous history of Hayley brown is
enlightened, which provides that Hayley's teenager is complicated. After a year of domestic
abuse, their parent was separated, and at last, they divorced when she was 15-year-old. Due to
this, Hayley's mothers face issues with depression due to the breakdown of a relationship and
often take alcohol excessively. A time while, Hayley married carl when she was 20, and due to
this, Hayley does not longer has to contact her mother. Overall, Hayley faces various upsides in
their life, and she experiences the issue of postnatal depression on a critical level. And Hayley
has also experienced this issue with mental illness. With this aspect, they require proper support
and care from the nursing associate. The nursing associate plays a vital role with the help of 6c’s
and interaction to know the complexities that Hayley has faced for a longer time. Postnatal
depression is usually associated with stress, anxiety, and many more, creating an issue with
Hayley. In this, the nursing associate takes care of it with their knowledge and skill, which is
used to minimize the risk of depression and excessive alcohol consumption.
NMC codes are for the public expectation, including the professional standard for nurses
and midwives while providing care services to the patient. Here, the different standard has been
followed to deliver quality care and services. These codes may include treating people as
individuals, ensuring their dignity, listening to patients, and responding to their concerns and
preferences. Act the best interest of patient all time (Calamidas and et al., 2018). The role of the
nursing associate in the Hayley case, the nursing associate, specializes in providing care to the
patient (Hayley) after the birth has been taken place. In this, they also take responsibility for
both, including the mother and the baby, and must ensure that they will take care of them until
they discharge. Specifically, they also focus on the mother in raising self-confidence that they
need before being sent home with their child. Moreover, Hayley brown also need to disucuss
with a nursing associate who can help nursing associate in the primary responsibilities of the
nurses in the postnatal setting are the assess postpartum patients, provide care and teaching and
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they are essential for the significant finding which includes providing education to Hayley that
they must follow a healthy diet and food habit to promote healthy behavior.
As a Nurse associate, there is a need to ensure the patient's health. There is a need to ensure
that the health promotion initiative can be effective and deliver quality services to ensure good
patient health (Crume and et al., 2018). Supporting a better environment is one of Hayley's
effective health promotion initiatives that can be effective and influence her behavior to achieve
better health. Creating health promotion can be an effective initiative that can help Hayley
achieve improved health and ensure recovery from depression and alcoholism. It is the one in
which there is a need to provide adequate health that can be achieved through health promotion
initiatives that can be effective and allow to possess good health and avoid the risk of depression
and other health-related issues with Hayley. It is the one in which there is a need to ensure good
health, which can be effective and provide a better and healthy impact on individuals (Raglan
and et al., 2021).
Here, supporting a better environment as health promotion initiatives can be effective and
provide better coverage of health and avoid the risk of worsening health. A supportive
environment can influence Hayley's postnatal depression, promote positive behavior, and reduce
alcohol consumption. There is a need to take some initiative that can be effective and allow to
help out Hayley. There is a need to ensure that Hayley has the correct information about the
issues they can be suffering (Brown and et al., 2018). There is a need to provide better health by
making awareness about good health and delivering the information related to good health. As a
nurse associate, it is needed to share information to provide related news and its side impact on
her and her baby. This can influence Hayley to take the initiative regarding achieving better
health. It can enable delivering better and sufficient information about postnatal depression,
allowing making aware of the health condition. In this, through making awareness about the
postnatal depression and its side impact. Hayley can take care of her and should ensure about
possessing the information that can allow being motivated to achieve good health (Laytonand et
al., 2021).
Maternal Mental Health Promotion Program refers to health promotion initiatives that can
be highly effective and provide a better impact that can be helpful for the postnatal, which can
allow delivering quality health. Through this, awareness can be provided to Hayley regarding her
better health and help avoid postnatal depression and alcohol consumption. It can be effective
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and can limit depression after the pregnancy. Through this initiative, an intervention program
allows delivering awareness regarding during pregnancy. It is a practical initiative that allows to
take control over the harassing situation and enable individuals to take care of the effects of
postpartum depression (George and et al., 2018). Supporting a better environment is the initiative
that allows delivering quality information about dealing with and avoiding the risk of postnatal
depression, which can negatively impact the patient and her health. Supporting a better
environment is the health promotion initiative taken through the health promotion program for
public health (D'Amelio et al., 2021). It can allow delivering the awareness and information to
the public that can help limit the effect of postpartum depression.
Proper care and medication can also effectively decrease the effect of postnatal depression.
As a nursing associate, there is a need to ensure that patients get adequate care and treatment on
time. This can allow better and effective care of the patient with postnatal depression. It can
enable them to achieve better health and support Hayley to ensure her good health. It can allow
quality care to achieve better health and improvement for good (Blackmore and et al., 2021).
There is also a need to ensure the proper medication which is effective and should provide good
health.
Hayley needs to achieve good health and through implementing the supporting better
environment can be an effective initiative that can help reduce the impact of postnatal depression
and alcoholism. There is also a need to ensure about possessing good health, which can impact
Hayley's health. There is a need to take some initiative that can help to help in providing better
health (Lees and et. al., 2020). Creating awareness regarding a healthy lifestyle and quality living
is one of the most critical initiatives that can be taken for every individual's health. This can
allow getting information about the negative health impact of alcohol consumption. There is a
need to make some campaigns and another promotion program that can be effective and deliver
the quality information that can help provide better health and influence the public to take the
initiative for their better health. However, supporting a better environment and creating
awareness can be an appropriate initiative for Hayley to achieve improved health and recover
from postnatal depression and alcoholism. It can be effective and deliver better support through
aware individuals about their better health.
Moreover, through the promotion program, there is a need to create awareness about the
health impact of alcoholism on the individual and the postnatal lady (Melnyk, 2020). It can be
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helpful to make Hayley aware of her health. This can be effective and influence Hayley to get
better health and take some initiative for herself, which can allow delivering a better impact for
achieving good health. It can be easy to influence people to ensure their health through different
health promotion programs. In contrast, Hayley can also impact by getting the information
associated with good health. The awareness program is effective and allows better details on
achieving good health (Spry and et al., 2021). It can also enable delivering better care and
support to improve the quality of life. Using a health promotion initiative can help Hayley adopt
a better lifestyle and reduce the impact of postnatal depression and alcoholism.
Creating awareness regarding better health is a highly effective initiative that can help to
influence Hayley and other public to achieve better health. It can allow sharing the information
and its negative impact on health. Through this, they may help deliver quality care for patients
and ensure better and improved health that can help Hayley overcome postnatal depression or
alcoholism (Minschart et al., 2020). As a nurse associate, there is a need to ensure that this
promotion program can be effective and influence patients to take care of their health and avoid
alcohol consumption. It can also help to reduce the effect of postnatal depression.
There are many pharmacological treatments for postnatal depression, such as antidepressant
medication. Postnatal depression can be particularly thought of as the variant of the major
depression that specifically responds towards antidepressant medicines (Kariukiand et al., 2021).
It involves concerns that are unique to the pharmacologic treatments of postnatal depression,
which affects the metabolic modifications in postpartum. The infant's exposure to such
medications as breast milk can impact depression and the treatment on the capability of the
depressed mother to care for a born baby. In this, it can also involve breastfeeding
considerations. The benefits of breastfeeding are generally well illustrated and have led the world
health organization to recommend breastfeeding for at least the first month for females (Arefadib
and et al., 2021). The potential effects of antidepressant medicines on breastfeeding are of
significant concern to many mothers and care providers (Dorn and et al., 2019). Various common
methods are used to treat depression, such as behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy,
cognitive therapy, interpersonal therapy, etc. The care providers must provide psychotherapy for
treating the depression in case of Hayley. Talk therapy can be an important and effective
treatment in her case.
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Building a better relationship between Hayley and the care providers can effectively deliver
information and healthcare services to Hayley to diminish postnatal depression and alcoholism.
In this, developing effective communication can also aid the care provider in helping Hayley to
get out from her depression. Effective communication can effectively build trust among them,
which can help the patient effectively recover from her depression (Blackmore et al., 2021).
Through effective communication can help her to express her feelings as well as share the things
which make a negative impact on her life. By sharing such things can make her feel relaxed and
recover speedily from her depression so that she can live a healthy life with her baby and
husband. In this, sharing the things with the care providers can provide a good response or
solutions to her p [problems she is facing. It can aid her in overcoming her issues and positively
decrease the impacts of depression (Guo and et al., 2020). The care providers can also make her
do meditation, as it is the most effective treatment for treating the cause of depression among
people. In this, depression is not just about an imbalance of chemicals in the brain (Wei and et
al., 2021). Medication can somewhat aid her in decreasing some of the symptoms of moderate
and severe depression. Still, it cannot cure the underlying issues as well, as it is generally not a
long-term solution towards dealing with depression.
With the approval of care professionals, the nurse can provide Hayley the antidepressant
medicines that can also come with the same side impacts and safety concerns and can effectively
withdrawal can be very difficult. It can involve alternative as well as complementary treatments
for treating depression. It can include vitamins and herbal supplements, acupuncture, and
relaxation techniques like mindfulness meditation, yoga, or tai-chi. In this, the care provider can
involve relaxation techniques (Peyre et al., 2019). It can aid in relieving the symptoms of
depression the relaxation techniques, which can also decrease stress and encourage feelings of
joy and well-being. The patients must try yoga, deep breathing, and progressive muscle
relaxation, or it can be in the form of meditation. In addition to this, acupuncture can also come
under an effective technique that can aid the patients to effectively deal with depression (Cohen
and et al., 2021). The method of using the fine needles on the particular points on the body for
therapeutic purposes. It is generally being investigated as a treatment for depression (Madigan
and et al., 2018). Postpartum depression can cascade through the family, impacting her father or
mother and negatively impacting her husband and offspring. It can also influence the father's
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earliest parenting and its involvement with their infants. Her father may be experiencing minor
depression, demonstrating the lower paternal warmth and more irritability in their interaction.
The care providers must provide vitamins and other supplements for depression (Johnstone,
2021). There are several drugs available for the treatment of depression. Some of the most
widely used medications in this are Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), fluoxetine
(Prozac), paroxetine HRI (Paxil), and sertraline (Zoloft) and many more. In this, the care
provider can provide the combination of an antidepressant, which may be essential. In most
cases, the antidepressant is associated with the second antidepressant from the various classes or
the various classes of the medications altogether, such as the mood stabilizer such as lithium or
the atypical antipsychotics such as aripiprazole, quetiapine and aripiprazole. It can effectively
encourage the impacts of an antidepressant alone. In this, there are other anti-anxiety drugs
involved in benzodiazepines like buspirone, alprazolam, lorazepam and many (Vincent et et.al.,
2021). These particular drugs carry a developing risk of addiction or tolerance, so they are not as
desirable for long-term use. Here, through providing healthcare services and care, NMC codes
have been applied as nursing associates. Here, Hayley is treated as an individual patient, listens
to her preferences, and maintains her dignity and cares for her. These are some practical care
services delivered by the healthcare profession, ensuring the effectiveness of the standard of
practice that can show the average of proficiency (Power, 2019).
6c of communication is essential because it is regulated by NHS which state some of
aspect such as care, in contrast with case study it is must needed by Hayley with help to nursing
associate, moreover, compassion, courage is also helpful to provide some aspect which is
required for Hayley to feel motivated and commitment and competence is also better strategy to
communicate with number of patient and it is also applicable in case of Hayley.
Here, 6C’s includes the clarity, conciseness, coherence, correctness, courtesy along with
conviction. This is summarising when the individual or the patient is ready to communicate and
as a nursing associate a relationship is developing with proper interaction with such kind of
patient. In this, the use of 6c is effective in order to develop quality of communicate which is
helpful to understand the patient need and their requirement. With this, the monitoring of
medication and their day-to-day activities and this a primary role of nursing associate
(Figueiredo and et. al., 2017).
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CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can conclude that there is a vital role of nursing associates that
can be helpful to get better health. It can allow delivering quality service to a patient for their
better health. In this, there is a discussion about the role of nursing associates, which can provide
quality service. There is also a discussion about the health promotion initiative that can help deal
with postnatal depression and alcoholism. There is also discussion about the therapeutic
intervention that can help achieve good health for the public and get better health.
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