Community nurses or Health Visitors are registered general nurses that work in the local community including schools, homes, local doctors practices, health centres and surgerys. The community nurse role covers anyone who is ill or may have a health disability and especially includes very young children, old people and those with learning or physical disabilities.
Community Care Nursing Job role.
A Community nurse visits people in their own homes or at a central location within the local supported enviornment.
Healthcare is provided across a range of levels some times just to check up on injuries or health problems with further care delivered changing bandages, giving injections or prviding equipment and advice on use.
Typical responsibilities
- Planning, managing and assessing patients and how they should be cared for;
- offering emotional support to patients and their families and carers, and teaching basic care-giving skills;
- accepting referrals from GPs and hospitals;
- establishing links with patients' families, carers and other health professionals;
- checking patients, families and carers understand forms of treatment and how medication should be administered;
- identifying social care problems and referring to appropriate organisations where necessary;
- Standard nursing practices checking temperature, blood pressure and pulse readings,
- administering drugs and injections, setting up drips, cleaning and dressing wounds, taking uring and blood samples;
- collaborating with colleagues from a range of disciplines;
- checking patients are responding well to treatment;
- prescribing aids, as required;
- liaising with other services on the patient's behalf, eg meals on wheels, intensive home care.
Community Nurses have to comply with all the legal, educational and training requirements to practice as a professional nurse and are required by the Royal College of Nursing to be registered.
Whilst the above list is not exhuastive it does provide an overview of the types of roles you will perform as a Community Nurse,
for further information please visit the Community and District Nurse Association
For the latest Community Care Nursing Jobs please click here
For the latest Community Nursing Topics click here
Alternatively if you have any questions please an email to info@nurserve.co.uk.
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