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Many nurses aspire to care for patients at the bedside in hospitals. However, community and public health nurses have a unique opportunity to make a larger impact. Maria, a recent nursing graduate, realized that many hospital patients' problems could have been prevented through early intervention. This led her to explore community health nursing roles, discovering a wide range of possibilities, including:

• Maternal and Child Healthcare nurses: provide home visits to new mothers, ensuring healthy baby starts and promoting child care skills.
• School nurses: teach children about healthy eating and conduct screenings for early health problems.
• Public Health nurses: assess community needs, track trends and diseases, and address public health concerns.
• Occupational Health nurses: promote workplace safety and identify health issues among employees.
• Visiting nurses: provide care to discharged patients, especially the elderly, in their homes for faster recovery.
• Hospice nurses: provide end-of-life care, ensuring a good death for patients according to their wishes.
• Community Health nurses: engage in advocacy and policy-level work to address community health issues.

Maria concluded that community and public health nurses have a greater opportunity to positively influence patients' lives by preventing problems before they arise. By working in the community, nurses can see the big picture and advocate for their patients. There are many interesting and rewarding jobs outside of the hospital, and community health nursing offers a chance to make a significant difference.

so what kind of a nurse do you want to be most people including nursing students have a vision of nurses that take care of patients at the bedside in hospital we all agree that nurses do not like to see their patients suffer and they want to make their patients lives

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better and most nurses become nurses because they really want to make a difference so what if you can make a big difference instead of just one person at a time that's the power of a community health or public health nurse they take care of populations let's meet Maria Maria

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graduated about a year ago she works at major city Hospital on a busy floor and she loves her job but she realizes that the patients she sees have one huge thing in common mainly that the problems they have all could have been prevented like Ted the 53-year-old overweight patient with diabetes in

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7A he has been admitted multiple times for complications related to his weight and diabetes currently he has been admitted for a below the knee amputation which makes Maria very sad and she wonders if early detection and intervention could have prevented this major traumatic

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surgery and suffering Maria knows how hard it will be for t who has been the primary bread winner in his family and has worked for 20 years as a fireman she wonders what is life will be like after his amputation Maria also wonders how her role as a nurse could reach patients

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sooner so that patients like Ted don't have to suffer so Maria starts investigating other possibilities for nursing roles and learns that there are many jobs out there in the community that she never thought of before Maria learned that there are maternal and Child Healthcare nurses who visit

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new moms in their home to ensure that the babies get off to A Healthy Start and that high-risk new moms learn important Child Care skills she discovered that School nurses teach children healthy eating habits at an early age and perform Health screens to pick up early health

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problems Maria discovered Public Health nurses work at the state or Municipal level and often assess their whole communities to see what problems need to be addressed they are skilled in epidemiology and know the latest trends and diseases like new cases of TB or a measles

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outbreak she was happy to learn about Occupational Health nurses or employee health nurses who work in companies or hospitals and keep the employees safe at work and also screen to identify early problems although Maria had heard about visiting nurses also called Hare nurses

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she didn't realize how very sick patients were when discharged from the hospital and what a difference being hom met to the patient especially Elders they get better much faster in familiar surroundings Maria was also surprised to learn about the high job satisfaction of

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hospice nurses who cared for patients at the end of life she learned that there is a satisfying sense of closure in being there for patients and families whose goal is to experience a good death according to the patient's wishes Maria also learned that some Community Health nurses work with

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Grassroots advocacy groups or as a lobbyist and get involved at the policy level after researching the numerous kinds of community and public health nursing roles Maria concluded that nurses working in the community have a greater opportunity to positively influence their patients lives Community

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nurses can see the big picture and know how to advocate for their patients but Maria's big takeaway was how many really interesting jobs there are outside of the hospital and by working at the community or public health level she can work to stop many serious problems before they

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begin so now that you've seen the light where will you go