Community Nursing

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This paper explains that community nurses provide highly skilled health care for home-care and community group-care patients, offer advice on a wide range of issues and give critical support as needed. The author points out that nursing is one of the fastest growing professions in the United States of America and that community nursing is a growing opportunities for nurses. The paper details several types of health problems in Staten Island related to the Fresh Kills Landfills across the harbor; illegal dumping forms a major health problem causing respiratory problems and infections.

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"The situation today is that, since there is a paucity of the number of nurses, and then technology would have to intervene and make up for the lack of numbers of nurses. When the fact that American society is elderly or ageing, and the number of elderly, who have grown in the number of the population almost twice as rapidly as the younger population, who need long term health care or palliative care, and so on has also increased simultaneously, most of the nurses of today would be required to perform and meet efficiently the health care needs of the ageing or the elderly population of America. It is also a fact that technology would help these nurses meet and perform their duties with relative ease. Patient care decisions, the various decision support systems, the management protocols that are assisted in their maintenance by the computerized technology that is available today are all part of the facilities that are provided by the improvement in technology for nurses."

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