Community Health Nursing

Community Health Nursing
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Community Health Nursing
For decades, communities have been reliant on nurses for proper health practices. Caregivers have significant impacts on people’s welfare. They take care of sick individuals and ensure that proper health interventions are made for various communities to eradicate potential diseases, outbreaks, or pandemics. Community health nursing facilitates the overall safety and health wellbeing of individuals in different communities, which leads to fewer injuries, longer life expectancies, and fewer illnesses or disease outbreaks. In particular, community health nurses offer proper healthcare services, health education, preventive care, and effective disease interventions to populations or communities.
The clients in community health nursing are not an individual, but rather the entire communities. Specifically, a community consists of people of different ages, cultures, ethnicities, gender, social statuses, health conditions, skin color, and racial backgrounds. For this reason, community health nurses ought to focus on the needs of all the people in a specific region. Juniarti et al. (2019) assert that community health nursing emphasizes health promotion and disease intervention to ensure that all individuals are healthy (Juniarti, Fuller, Zannettino, & Grant, 2019). Community health nurses educate the public on how to avoid various illnesses or outbreaks. As such, education plays a significant role in community health nursing since people know how to avoid distinctive diseases. When it comes to individuals suffering from different health conditions, they are guided on what to do to remain healthy for an extended period.
The government should provide adequate resources for community health nursing. Effective training and support are required to equip community health caregivers so that they can address the challenges encountered by healthcare systems (Juniarti, Fuller, Zannettino, & Grant, 2019). The government should provide adequate health infrastructure, preventive strategies for communicable diseases, health insurance covers, and safeguard people against environmental health hazards. Without these resources, it would be difficult for community health nursing to work effectively. For examp...