The purpose of this article is to describe the process of conducting a collaborative communitywide health fair, and the impacts of such health intervention programs on community members. A community health fair addresses the health access needs of underserved populations. The success or effectiveness of such community-based programs requires systematic approach to assessment, planning, implemen...

BACKGROUND Preventive health care represents the future for health care delivery in South Africa to improve management of chronic diseases as this has been implemented for some time in several countries to tackle the increasing burden of chronic diseases. Individual person's health is unique, as they move in and out of chronic and acute health care phases, there is need to integrate chronic and...

OBJECTIVE To identify issues that promote agreement and disagreement among doctors, nurses, and health care professionals who integrate the Family Health Care Program team. METHODS A qualitative study using focus groups was carried out. The participants were male and female health care professionals, doctors and nurses from the Family Health Care Program team in Teresina, Brazil. Group sessio...

introduction: since nurses are the largest group of health care providers playing an important role in responding to disasters, evaluating the state of nursing and nursing knowledge about common patterns of disasters is undeniable in importance and necessity. however, based on studies conducted by researchers, there are few models for nursing that show nurses’ disaster readiness. this study was...

PURPOSES We reported the roles and functions of nurses in home visits for brain tumor patients using the family health assessment guide in the study. METHODS One patient of brain glioma was chosen as the case illustration. The nurses assessed the patients' situation, their families and living environment individually. All these factors were analyzed together. RESULTS The nurses then impleme...

This article explores how the education and training of community nurses and the part they play in the provision of primary health care equips them to undertake home or health centre-based myocardial infarction rehabilitation programmes.

The dramatic changes in health care delivery present challenges to nurses in practice and to the educators who must prepare professional nurses for the uncertain world of tomorrow's managed care environment. In light of the increased emphasis on health promotion occurring with current changes in health care, the article proposes numerous creative strategies that nurse educators can use to prepa...

This paper reports on the Partnership Initiative in Nursing and Social Services (PINSS), a project that placed community nurses within social services Assessment and Care Management Teams (ACMTs) within two Social Services Departments (SSDs) within the East Midlands. The project aimed to assess the impact of the nurses on the social services environment and the parallel effects on the nurses of...

This information on best practice is based on a systematic review (Callaghan et al 2005) conducted by the Institute Nurses' Network (Telethon Institute of Child Health Research), Western Australian community and child health nurses and the Western Australian Centre for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery, a collaborating centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute. The primary references on which th...