NRS-428VN-0500 Concepts in Community and Public Health Nursing

NRS-428VN-0500 Concepts in Community and Public Health Nursing: Discuss how geopolitical and phenomenological place influence the context of a population or community assessment and intervention…

NRS-428VN-0500 Concepts in Community and Public Health Nursing

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Discuss how geopolitical and phenomenological place influence the context of a population or community assessment and intervention. Describe how the nursing process is utilized to assist in identifying health issues (local or global in nature) and in creating an appropriate intervention, including screenings and referrals, for the community or population.

Concepts in Community and Public Health Nursing
Geopolitical and phenomenological place significantly influence the context of a population, community assessment, and intervention due to the many diverse factors that vary from region to region. Geopolitical factors such as infrastructure necessitate assessments and interventions that focus on the impact these factors have on the community health and individual health outcomes. This includes assessments on the health issues specific to the geopolitical region and their impact on health determinants such as access and health disparities. Secondly, phenomenological factors, include religion, language, culture, values, traditions, education, and economics of a population. With more focus on individualized assessments and interventions, phenomenological factors have a significant influence on the health outcomes of communities and individuals. Hence accounting for geopolitical and phenomenological factors in the nursing process helps identify critical health issues and develop primary interventions appropriate and effective to the community.
Community health nurses may face some challenges in their practice as they work with distinct community groups. For instance, various communities pose different linguistic and cultural barriers to this profession. The nurses’ training in collaboration with other disciplines in health can provide a number of perspectives to overcome such challenges. For instance, some of the best practices public health nurses can incorporate to ensure they are competent in their roles would include goal setting, reflective practice, peer review, self-evaluation, and studying different cultures and practices (Maurer & Smith, 2012). The practices go along with implementing the nursing process as they provide healthcare in a community setting. The process would encompass assessment, diagnosis, then planning, followed with implementation and finalizing with evaluation step.

The first step of assessment would include assessing which health issues occur in different communities with different values, beliefs, and cultures of the patients. Diagnosis would involve analyzing the health problem and its relation to its causative factor. The planning step would encompass identifying the interventions needed, which would be patient-centered in reference to the terms of issues at hand, belief or culture, and inclusive of the patient’s care plan (Evans‐Agnew et al., 2017). The implementation stage is all about putting the stipulated plan into actual action. The final step in the process is evaluation, whereby the public health nurse assesses how effective the plan provided is and making modifications wherever necessary. Through this process, the nurses will be able to perform their roles, which include controlling communicable diseases, providing health education, environmental sanitation, laboratory services, disease screening, and offering the patients referrals.

References
Evans‐Agnew, R., Reyes, D., Primomo, J., Meyer, K., & Matlock‐Hightower, C. (2017). Community health needs assessments: Expanding the boundaries of nursing education in population health. Public Health Nursing, 34(1), 69-77.
Maurer, F. A., & Smith, C. M. (2012). Community/public health nursing practice: Health for families and populations. Elsevier Health Sciences.