Please respond to each post as if responding to a colleague in a discussion post in class. Each post requires at least a 200 word response. Thank you.
PB Post 1. Public health nurses play a critical role in improving population health outcomes by educating communities and delivering care within them. In this leadership position, registered nurses are able to make positive changes through policy reform and community-building. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. public health nurses have served on the frontlines, not only treating patients but also educating them about the disease, tracing their contacts, and delivering self-isolation guidance. Basically, a public health nurse is a registered nurse (RN) who advocates for positive changes in population health. This exciting career gives nurses the opportunity to work directly within communities to educate people and give them the tools they need to improve their health outcomes.
Discuss the role of a public health nurse is to promote public wellness. In this capacity, nurses focus on helping underserved and at-risk individuals gain access to the care they need. The main goal of public health nurses is to help prevent disease and reduce health risks at the population level through evidenced-based care and education.
When someone is sick with a fever or a cold, the public health will look into what causes the person to get the cold or the fever and then provide treatment to the the person. The public health nurses main responsibilities are to evaluating the health of patients and creating treatment plans, monitoring patients for any changes in condition, delivering top-quality care alongside physicians, educating patients about available support services and helping them access care,
emphasizing primary prevention in order to avoid disease or injury before it occurs and
working with public health officials to help underserved communities gain access to care.
The clinical nurse in the other hand, provides direct patient care, take an important role in improving healthcare delivery systems. the clinical nurse has a lot of responsibilities from teaching, managing, researching, consulting to clinical practice. They perform initial assessments, document medical history and vital statistics, verify accuracy of information in records, and ensure all medical orders are followed correctly. They provide hands-on care, drawing upon their clinical knowledge. They may also oversee training programs and provide instruction to nursing students.
While public health nurse and clinical nurse job responsibilities might have some similarities and some differences, their actual goals are to improve and promote public wellness.
RM Post 2. I have been a Hospital Corpsman, Basic Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-B), Licensed Practical Nurse, and Registered Nurse. Throughout all of these roles in the medical field, I have usually only dealt with one individual at time or their families. The term patient used to refer to the single individual you were treating, educating, or taking care of at the time. Just like there are multiple roles in nursing, there are multiple types of patients. The term patient is no longer exclusive to the one individual a healthcare professional is taking care of. Now the term patient can refer to a group or community.
Where clinic nurses assess one patient, a public health nurse can be assessing a group, community, or larger population. For example, a patient with lung cancer is assessed by a clinical nurse, and they focus on the individual by asking if they smoke, what is their occupation, etc. A public health nurse looks broader in their scope of inquiry. The public health nurse looks to see how many smokers are in the community, their ages, what type of tobacco they use, how many cases of lung cancer are in this group, do they share an occupation such as coal miner or factory worker, etc.
One of the most significant differences between a clinical nurse and a public health nurse is that the public health nurse does not wait for patients to come to them with an illness (Goodwin University, 2020, para. 7). Public health nurses perform community assessments, prevention, and screening services. Public health nurses work at the grassroots level for health promotion and disease prevention. Clinic nurses usually only see patients when they are sick or only perform health education to one patient, while a public health nurse performs these duties on a larger scale.
Clinical nurses are singular in their focus as they treat the here and now. They want to save and to improve lives in that moment of time (Goodwin University, 2020, para. 8). Public health nurses are the exact opposite of clinic health nurses. They want to help people with their health on a much broader scale over a longer period of time. There is no instant prognosis or treatment in public health nursing. Treatment and education can take months or years in communities to see any sort of changes in behavior or any statistical difference from their work in the communities they help.
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