In a society, nurses need to assist and provide proper care for communities that may differ on a geopolitical and phenomenological basis. Communities in geopolitical places can be natural or man-made and refer to cities, counties, states, or school districts and neighborhoods (Nies & McEwen, 2018). The place in phenomenological communities is more abstract and refers to similarities based on culture, value, history, or interests (Nies & McEwen, 2018). Public health nurses should provide assessment and intervention based on both individual and social environmental factors encouraging community programs (Olsen et al., 2018). A geopolitical and phenomenological place can influence the context of a population or community assessment and intervention in terms of providing care for people of a specific group as a whole or an individual in said groups.
Nurses play a crucial role in assisting health issues of local or global nature and providing care for communities. The nursing process can be utilized to assist in identifying health issues based on its first stages, which are assessment and diagnosis (Younas, 2017). During the assessment, nurses collect patients’ data regarding demographics, vital signs, and physical, psychological, and spiritual conditions (Younas, 2017). Based on the assessment, nurses should be able to identify health issues and formulate a nursing diagnosis (Younas, 2017). The nursing process can be utilized in creating an appropriate intervention during its implementation stage (Younas, 2017). Intervention along with screening and referrals can be applied for the community or population in relation to primary care, emergency departments, schools, and mental health clinics (Knopf-Amelung, 2017). During the nursing process after the screening, patients may receive a referral to treatment to connect with special care (Knopf-Amelung, 2017). Nurses have to be able to assist health issues of different nature for people from different communities and provide them with appropriate care.
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Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2018). Community/public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations. Saunders.
Olsen, J. M., Horning, M. L., Thorson, D., & Monsen, K. A. (2018). Relationships between public health nurse-delivered physical activity interventions and client physical activity behavior. Applied Nursing Research, 40, pp. 13-19.
Younas, A. (2017). The nursing process and patient teaching. Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, 15(6), 13-16.