Family and community nursing
Family assessment, home visits, community diagnosis, Colombia's health maintenance route, the life course and health education.
40 pages
Safe practice
- Caring for migrants and refugees: access to services, common risks and continuity of careMigrants often lose access to care on the road; the nurse helps them in an emergency, guides…
- Case management in community nursing: finding, coordinating and following up high-need peopleCase management gives people with complex, long-term needs one nurse who assesses, plans…
- Colombia's basic health teams (equipos básicos de salud): territory, families and the nurse's roleA basic health team cares for the families of a territory at home and in their settings; nursing…
- Community assessment and diagnosis: data, participation and prioritiesThe team gathers data about a community, with its people, to name its main health problems and…
- Community control of vector-borne disease: breeding sites, home visits and warning signsThe nurse helps families find and remove mosquito breeding sites, protect themselves from bites…
- Community participation, coalitions, intersectoral action and healthy settingsHealth improves faster when the community, other sectors and the health team work as partners in…
- Community vaccination: campaigns, house-to-house vaccination and rapid coverage monitoringOutside the clinic, the nurse plans and runs vaccination days and house-to-house sweeps, records…
- Contact tracing and partner notification: finding, interviewing and following contactsContact tracing finds the people exposed to an infectious person, tells them, checks them and…
- Disability in the community: inclusion, caregivers and community-based rehabilitationDisability comes from a health condition meeting barriers; the nurse removes barriers, supports…
- Elder maltreatment and neglect in the community: warning signs, protection and reportingAbout 1 in 6 older people suffer abuse each year, often from someone they trust; the nurse spots…
- Environmental health nursing: exposures, the exposure history, safe water and risk communicationThe nurse asks where people live, work and play, spots harmful exposures such as smoke, unsafe…
- Evaluating a health programme: structure, process and outcome; formative and summative evaluationEvaluating a programme shows whether it was delivered as planned and whether it changed…
- Gender-based and intimate-partner violence: asking, safety planning and activating the care routeAbout 1 in 3 women suffer violence; the nurse asks in private, listens without judging, plans…
- HIV and STI prevention in the community: counselling, rapid testing, linkage and mother-to-child eliminationThe nurse offers voluntary, confidential testing, gives clear prevention advice, links people…
- Nursing follow-up in chronic-disease programmes: hypertension and diabetes in primary careIn primary care the nurse follows people with high blood pressure or diabetes: measures…
- Nursing in rural and dispersed areas: access, extramural care and outreachIn rural and dispersed areas care has to travel to people: basic health teams, outreach visits…
- Nursing in the tuberculosis programme: case finding, directly observed treatment, contacts and adherenceIn the TB programme the nurse finds people with cough, opens their treatment record, agrees how…
- Occupational health nursing: workplace hazards, the occupational history and the SG-SSTWork can make people sick; the nurse asks about every job, links symptoms to exposures and helps…
- Outbreak response from the nursing side: notification, field tasks and control measuresWhen cases rise above what is expected, the nurse notifies at once, helps find and list cases…
- People who live on the street (habitantes de calle): health risks and how to reach themPeople who live on the street get sick more and reach care late; the nurse goes to them, builds…
- Planning a community health programme: needs, priorities, objectives and the logic modelPlanning a programme means turning community data into priorities, clear objectives and a logic…
- Planning, running and evaluating a health-education session or groupA good health-education group starts from what people need, uses active methods and checks at…
- Psychological first aid after disasters, violence and crisesPsychological first aid is humane, practical support right after a crisis: look for safety and…
- Referral and counter-referral (referencia y contrarreferencia) and follow-up between levels of careReferral sends a person to another provider for care; counter-referral sends back the answer and…
- School health nursing: screening, chronic conditions at school and the school settingAt school the nurse screens, prepares care plans for children with chronic illness, handles…
- The differential approach: ethnic peoples, gender, victims of the armed conflict and intercultural careColombian law asks services to adjust care to each group's age, gender, ethnicity, disability…
- The home visit: planning, safety, conduct and follow-upA home visit lets the team see how a family really lives, agree on care with them and check…
- Youth-friendly health services for adolescents and young peopleFriendly services make it easy for adolescents and young people to seek care: confidential…
Law
- Colombia's health promotion and maintenance route (Res. 3280 de 2018) from the nursing sideRes
- The Plan de Intervenciones Colectivas (PIC) and territorial health planning from the nursing sideThe PIC is the free, State-run plan of collective health interventions that each territory…
Fundamental
- Community and public health nursing: roles, levels of prevention and settingsCommunity nurses care for whole groups where people live, study and work: they promote health…
- Disasters and the nurse: risk reduction, preparedness, response and recovery (and shelters)Disaster care starts long before the event: the nurse helps know and reduce the risk, prepares…
- Health promotion models in nursing: Pender, the health belief model and stages of changeThese models explain why people adopt or avoid healthy behaviours, so the nurse can tailor…
- Population-based nursing: caring for individuals, families, communities and systemsPopulation-based nursing looks after the health of a whole group, not only the person who…
- Primary health care (APS): Alma-Ata, Astana and Colombia's APS strategyPrimary health care brings care close to where people live, joins health services with other…
- Public health nursing interventions: surveillance, case finding, outreach, screening, referral, advocacy and moreThe public health intervention wheel lists 17 actions that public health nurses use, from…
- The life-course approach and its stages in Colombian health policyHealth at any age reflects everything a person has lived before, so care is planned for each…
- Vulnerable populations and health equity: who, why and how the nurse works with themSome groups get sick more and reach care less because of where and how they live; the nurse…
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