The Scope of Community Nursing Assignment
Part #1:
You are the community nurse working for a disability program that focuses on persons with physical disabilities including use of assistive devices, oxygen, and complex medication regimes. The organization asks you to plan for a disaster like a tornado or hurricane so that the clients can maintain their current plans of care.
- What specifics would you need to address including shelters, obtaining needed equipment & medications, and assistive devices?
- What resources currently exist in your community for these individuals?
- How would you organize the plans and communicate them?
- What community partners are needed for success?
- How would you evaluate the results?
Part #2:
Read the Application to Practice on page 923. Answer the questions presented in the scenario.
- Additionally, what specific resources are available here in SWFL or your area of practice for situations like this?
- How could you access them?
- What other options are there?
- How would you enhance resources based on need for telehealth and physical distancing?
- What roles can the community health nurse play in caring for elderly in the community?
- How would you evaluate the initiatives you undertake for this group of persons?
Discussion #3:
You are sent to a school to fill in for the nurse who is not working because of risk for SARS- COV2 disease. The school hires you on a part-time basis, twice weekly for the school year. You are the only nurse for 800 students ages 5 – 12. The school building is old but well kept. The school administrators are supportive and receptive to new ideas. The school does receive federal funding for childhood nutrition. There is a local hospital clinic that works with the school. With SARS-COV2, students must their lunches and eat in their classrooms. No health-related programs are in place for the school’s faculty and staff. With SARS-COV2 pandemic, you are tasked with developing a program and actions to prevent spread of infections within the school.
Be specific in your answers with concrete examples within your scope of practice and abilities in this position.
- Review the Healthy People 2030 objectives for school health and other relevant topics.
- Identify and prioritize the top 3 needs of this school within the scope of public health and school nurse practice related to SARS-COV2 prevention and mitigation of spread.
- What roles must the school nurse play at this school? Who could be the nurse’s partners and stakeholders in meeting health needs in the school?
- What specific recommendations or programs could you recommend from the Community, system and individual/family levels? Examples are but not limited to use of masks, physical distance, barriers, immunizations potentially for this disease and current state mandated plus influenza for students and staff.
- How would you evaluate your proposed initiative/ program outcomes?