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What is the impact of nursing on my community? - Coggle Diagram
What is the impact of nursing on my community?
Educate the community about managing chronic conditions and making healthy choices
Support population health and deliver preventative health care services
Support elderly in rural areas that do not have access to close by healthcare services
Organize fundraising efforts for health related causes
Can be valuable assets in addressing social and environmental health issues
These issues are called social determinants of health
Education is one component of the five social determinants of health, and providing high-quality education can impact the health of each individual and have positive effects that can extend into adulthood.
Nurses volunteer and use their training in places such as camps in order to help their community
Each agency can have very diverse staffing needs and workloads that a nurse can potentially contribute to as a volunteer. A collaborative relationship between the nurse and agency can be an effective way to determine needs that the agency may have.
Can improve these systems and positively affect the populations they serve. Evidence-based practice models, even those not directly related to “health care,” could have applications in nonclinical settings in a community
Nurses possess specific skills that can help communities
Nurses are typically curious and hardworking, therefore they could help in aspects unrelated to their job as a nurse, such as helping with childcare
Nurses are also very compassionate so if they happen to see someone in need, they will most likely help the people in their community
Culture influences how nurses may perceive illness, but they have the knowledge such as shared traditions and values
Nurses are our regular everyday people, and come from a great variety of religious backgrounds and traditions
There are more nurses than doctors, so patients in the community have more people t0 help with their illness while also understanding their culture
Nurses have a unique perspective of how a community’s physical, social, and economic environment can affect patients’ health
We know that when looking at factors that influence health, our health is powerfully affected by a combination of socioeconomic (40%) and environmental factors (10%), while only 20% of our health is influenced by clinical care.
Nurses can play an important role in helping others in their communities understand how these factors influence health and in making community-level changes that would address these areas. From access to healthy foods to water quality to physical education requirements in schools, there are a multitude of factors that influence health that nurses can positively help address.