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Why become a public health nurse??? I ask this question because I have next to no understanding about public health nursing.
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Posted about 5 years ago I found this question in my email box... here is my response to it... please add any others..
The public has a vast array of needs. Public Health Nurses fill a variety of those needs from blood drives, vaccination shots, bp screenings, disaster preparedness, and any number of other functions... please google this as well for more info... and you can give ASK.com a shot too... sometimes they are more thorough than google. Hope you have a great week and I hope this answer helped you . |
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| Posted about 5 years ago I feel like being a public health nurse allows me to actually help more people than being in the hospital setting. A publc health nurse not only helps the physical aliments of a patient, but there environemental and mental. There is also the added benefit of being able to see the end result of your assistance. Definately not something you can get in the hospital/ acute care setting! |
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| Posted about 5 years ago Luanna, I had the same question asked of me. I think you answered it great!! Shan invited me to this group, and I feel that Home Health / Hospice Nurses are in the Public Nursing area. If I am wrong, feel more than free to correct me!!! Shan, I agree so much that we get to see "the end result of your assistance" in the sector of PHN, we see the wound we treated two days later, 2 weeks later..etc. Not just Hospital "fix this and get out" versions of patient care. And Kudos to all who do Hospital work too....heck, let's ALL take a KUDO JUST FOR BEING LOVING, CARING NURSES!!!!! WHOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO oops time for my vali.....(?) lol I'm in an odd mood today! Peace and a low or no pain day for those friends of mine that live with it..... Shauna :-) |
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| Posted about 5 years ago Public health nursing can be defined also as community nursing in that its impact will trickle into the community reduce the spread of infectious desease and dealing with health issues that affect the family as well as the individual. if I am not wrong it also entails many government health agency and many non-for-profit organization. however my personal definition will give it an even broader definition in that to serve the public in whatever form through private companies or in a doctors office is also public health. Even when one person is aided, that is another beneift to soceity and a service to the public, to reduce the overall strain to the community. |
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| Posted over 4 years ago I am a public health nursing. I am a school nurse employed by the Florida Department of Health. I work the school year at a high school. I make sure my students are immunized against childhood diseases, like Diptheria, Pertussus, Polio, Chicken Pox, etc. I make sure they have recieved a physical. If they have chronic conditions, I work with them, their parents, family physican, therapies to ensure they are healthy and recieve the services they need. I teach nutrition classes, teen parenting classes, assist in vision and hearing screenings. Follow-up on issues that children may have (headlice, rashes, infections, etc). When I work at the health department I do family planning, immunizations, draw labs, nursing assessment, vitals before the patient is seen by nurse practitioner or the doctor. I worked Ryan White(HIV clinic)before I started school health. That's also public health. We have numerous clinics within public health, TB clinic, Hepatitis clinic, healthy start, OB clinic, we respond during disaters, like Red Cross, we staff the disaster shelters. The list is quite extensive. Anything that impacts the public's health. Why become a public health nurse? It's like working in a doctors office but specializing in public health. It's getting up close and personal with people that really need help. They may not be acutely ill, but they need interventions in place to keep them healthy. |
