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Community Health Nursing Current Practice and Possible Futures
In response to the growing demands on primary and community care services, particularly with the changes in policy direction, the Department of Health Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) requires a more strategic approach to planning and developing community nursing services. It was felt that practitioners need to understand the social context of illness, ensuring that healthcare becomes more culturally sensitive and that services are responsive and targeted to reach out to those who need them and are not developed solely along historical workforce allocations.
To develop innovative models of service delivery for community health nursing (CHN) that are consistent with public health principles; workable within the developing primary care structures in Northern Ireland (NI) and have the potential to link primary care, public health, community and secondary care and other relevant interest groups. Such models will be inclusive of all community health nursing disciplines, including midwives, and grounded within the context of public health.
The quantitative systems of data collection surrounding CHN activity elicited an almost unanimous antipathy towards it represented in both the qualitative and quantitative data. It was seen as time consuming and one of the more onerous of other administrative burdens. There was a distinct lack of clarity over the purposes of the data collection exercise with information going upwards into a bureaucratic ‘black hole’ but rarely coming back down. Nurses tended to view the completion of the data as a mandatory work requirement even though they could see very little benefit for the effort invested in the task.
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