Part 4
What are the roles/positions of community and
public health nurses? Explain how each of those roles/positions are
fulfilled.
Differentiate hospice and palliative care. Provide
an example of a situation when each are implemented?
Public health nurses are the lowest link that connects each individual from the community to the health sector and makes the health facility available to the the commenest people.
They also provide health education regarding different aspects like malnourishment, reproductive health, family planning, antenatal, natal and post natal health care, child care etc.
Hospice care is care of individual who is at the end of life where he awaits death. They attend to the patients spiritual and emotional needs.
Palliative care is providing care to the patient as soon as you diagnose the case. Here everything possible is done to save the life of the patient, patient is not going to die.
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