The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) recently made a commitment to advancing a national culture of health (COH)-an action framework developed by RWJF that focuses on well-being and equity with the goal of empowering and supporting people to lead healthier lives where they live, learn, work, and play, now and in generations to come. Nurses are well positioned to provide care that is consist...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a culturally adapted, primary care-based nurse-community health worker (CHW) team intervention to support diabetes self-management on diabetes control and other biologic measures. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Two hundred sixty-eight Samoan participants with type 2 diabetes were recruited from a community health center in American Samoa and were random...

in the past two decades, the number of countries giving the permission of prescribing to nurses has increased. nowadays, in countries such as australia, south africa, ireland, finland, canada, norway, new zealand, sweden, britain, spain, and america, nurses have the legal right to prescribe medicine. nurse prescribing can enhance the quality of care, save patients’ time and money, promote occup...

in a period of less than five decades, the urban residence has dramatically increased in iran. currently more than two thirds of the population live in city dwellings. this rapid urbanization has considerable impact on people’s mental health and psychiatric care. the main strategy of iran's national program of mental health has been the integration of mental health into the primary health ...

BACKGROUND The recent policy of deinstitutionalization of health care in Western countries has resulted in a growing number of people - including elderly - with severe mental illness living in the community where they rely on families and others for support in daily living. Caregiving for partners, parents, children, and significant others can be a stressful experience and has been associated w...

In Britain, the nurse provided by the National Health Service to attend patients in their homes is always the "district nurse", despite other and later descriptions of her work as "home" or "community" nursing.' The popular usage not only betrays district nursing's philanthropic origins as a service organized on the district basis typical of Victorian visiting charities,2 but also testifies to ...

A community nurse may often encounter an ostomate (person with a stoma) but may not be regularly involved in their stoma care. This article explains the main types of stoma, stoma appliances and indications for some operations. Explanations are provided on some of the stoma appliances and accessories and when these might be useful to the community nurse and the ostomate. Stoma care is explained...

Introduction. Universities of Medical Sciences & Health Services were established with the aim of training and development of efficient health manpower for improving the community health. The people of the community have common health problems and needs, so universities of medical sciences and health services can affect diagnosing the problems, providing the health needs and developing health c...

A number of social forces are converging to shape the coming health care and professional practice environment for nurse practitioners (NPs) and the public they serve. Two major innovations of the 1960s, NPs and community health centers, have reached their fourth decade since their inception. These forces have traveled parallel and overlapping paths in their mission to provide high quality heal...

we need effective leadership for provision of enough resources in public health. recent report of medical institution about public health future include excellent advises for community health nurses activities. in this report not only numerous successes of public health have been identified but also methods which public health leaders can use to complete their mission in community have been exp...