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Community Health Nurses: Advocates for Underserved Populations

Every Nurse

Community Health Nurses Job Description Community health nurses are healthcare professionals dedicated to improving the health and well-being of individuals and communities. Providing Essential Healthcare Services Community health nurses deliver a wide range of healthcare services to individuals and communities.

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Using complaints to improve aged care

Nursing Review

In selecting resources to develop workforce capability, it's important to appreciate that despite a shared passion to support and care for older people, individual responsibilities, training, health literacy, and experience will vary.

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Diabetes innovations and access to care

American Nurse

For example, ElSayed and colleagues recommend considering individual patient health literacy and cultural disease awareness when discussing diabetes technology. Nurses must assess a patient’s baseline knowledge about the technology and how it improves their care. The application works with the patient’s care plan.

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Heart failure management: Updated guidelines

American Nurse

The guidelines recommend using an interprofessional team to screen for and address social determinants of health (socioeconomic status, food insecurity, homelessness or housing insecurity, abuse, limited English proficiency, low health literacy, social isolation, and limited transportation) that may affect self-care.