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    Journal Article Summary: Transition to Community Health Nursing The nursing profession offers an unlimited number of specialties and clinical areas for practice and employment focus. Nursing practice includes; surgery, labor and delivery, telemetry, intensive care unit, and even community nursing care. Furthermore, nurses can explore various degrees, ADN (associated in nursing diploma), baccalaureate nursing (BSN), and even nurse practitioner (NP) covering all areas of the healthcare spectrum. However;

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    Journal 1: Orientation Reflection I am excited to write about my experience of community health clinical orientation because I feel the students’ opinions are considered and value in order to continue to better the nursing program. The online orientation was great because many times, having orientation all day on campus can be draining and many students do not focus towards the end of the day. I was concerned about the lack of communication and organization; however it is understandable, there are

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    Nursing can be perceived in many ways by many different people. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, nursing is “the job of taking care of people who are sick, injured or old”. People need to realize that nursing does not involve taking care of only the sick because it is not accurate. My notes on nursing will reveal what nursing truly is and how it can provide a positive reinforcement for the community. Nursing is one of the toughest jobs out there right now and perhaps is the only job that

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    Community partners are very important to hosting a community health day focused on hypertension (HTN). Self-management of HTN comes with a high personal and economic cost (Patros, Schlomann, Schmitke & Virgin, 2011). It is critical for community business to support and help improve the lives of people within their community, by funding events aimed at reducing HTN health risk. A community effort is needed to achieve the goal of “healthy people 2010, which is to increase the proportion of adults

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    Journal 2 Community-based nursing refers to the collaboration of healthcare providers with the communities and the populations at large with the aim of promoting health and preventing diseases. Community health nurses provide care to groups, individuals, and families at an outside hospital setting with the aim of improving the communities ' health outcomes. A major aim in community heath nursing notices the healthy twenty-twenty objectives and that they have bearing on decreasing health disparities

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    holder and to carry that degree to serve the community. I am now a Nursing Student at Valencia College. It is a wonderful opportunity to be in a school known for its diligence and success on shaping future nurses. My educational goals are to pass all my nursing courses, to succeed on all my clinicals, and to graduate with excellence. However, this will not end my educational goals, for I will want to pursue my BSN, MSN, and DNP to broader my knowledge of nursing. As I diligently complete all of these goals

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    Include an abstract of your Community and Population task (suggested length of 1 page) in which you do the following: Summarize what you have learned during your Community Health Nursing task. I gained knowledge about my community while working on community health nursing task. Tulare County is an agricultural community, in which the majority of the population is Hispanic and White. Within Tulare County there are many smaller communities, each with their own different health risks. After surveying

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    Faith Community Nursing class (FCN). We were able to meet the first competency of the course which is “The student will describe Faith Community Nursing/ Health Ministry.” We addressed this competency by firstly, differencing the meaning of faith community nursing, which is the licensed nurse that care for an individual as a whole including mind, body, and spirit and health ministry which is whatever a faith community do to promote the human’s well being as a participant of this community. Secondly

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    NURS 430 Community Intervention Paper Community health nursing is a diverse discipline that works to provide equitable health care to all residents of Canada. To achieve this goal, nurses, within this discipline, aid community members in identifying public health concerns, planning feasible interventions, implementing appropriate action or policy, and evaluating the intervention process (Community Health Nurses of Canada, 2016). As part of my Nursing 431 Community Nursing course, I was able to participate

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    Community Health Nursing Reflection NUR/405 2012 Diane Schlicke RN MSN Community Health Nursing Reflection The role of the community health nurse in the participating family’s community is to focus on the health needs of the aggregate or group. Community health nursing refers to a systematic, comprehensive focus on wellness, health protection, and disease, and injury prevention for the population residing in a specific area. The nurse functions as advocate, case manager, consultant, health

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