The COVID-19 pandemic has given more relevance to identifying the common and specific competencies of specialized nurses in community health public health, presenting characterizing their interventions, relations with indicators population, factors that facilitate performance, respective regulations. A qualitative case study was undertaken 31 from a group centers data collection by interviews, ...

There is good progress with the implementation of South Africa's antiretroviral treatment program. The country, however, faces human resource shortages that could be addressed through appropriate task shifting. During 2009, we studied task shifting from nurses to community health workers (CHWs) for HIV treatment and care at 12 primary health-care clinics in Free State Province, South Africa. We...

The extensive utilization of paraprofessionals as therapeutic agents in National Institute of Mental Health (N.I.M.H.) funded community mental health centers (Gottesfeld, Rhee and Parker, 1970; Levenson and Reff, 1970; Sobey, 1970), has brought much attention to the need for inservice staff development (Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, 1961; Riessman, 1967; Sobey, 1970). The impor...

This study identified the purposes of the communication process in the group activities of the Family Health strategy from the perspective of nurses. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and recorded with 60 nurses and non-participant observation with 19 group activities, analyzed according to qualitative content analysis. Five categories emerged: Health education, Clinical follow-up, co-r...

BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals encounter many medical risks while providing healthcare services to individuals and the community. Thus, occupational safety studies are very important in health care organizations. They involve studies performed to establish legal, technical, and medical measures that must be taken to prevent employees from sustaining physical or mental damage because of wor...

BACKGROUND Yukon, a territory in northern Canada, has one of the highest reported sexually transmitted chlamydia infection rates in the country. OBJECTIVE We examined screening practices among physicians and community nurses to elucidate factors that may be contributing to the high rates. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. METHODS A questionnaire was distributed to all physicians in Yukon and...

Community health nursing is one of the nursing specialties that have always been valued for its role in providing care in a variety of practice settings including homes, schools, work places or other community institutions [1]. Community health nurses (CHNs) provide care to individuals, families and communities regardless of their age, gender, health or socioeconomic status. They provide their ...

This study addresses community hospital nurses' use of electronic health records and views of the impact of such records on job performance and patient outcomes. Questionnaire, interview, and observation data from 46 nurses in medical-surgical and intensive care units at two community hospitals were analyzed. Nurses preferred electronic health records to paper charts and were comfortable with t...

significant changes to education for AHWs and increased levels of responsibility in the clinical environment. Remuneration in the community sector is not progressing in line with governmentemployed health workers. ACCHS health workers have higher levels of clinical skills and responsibilities than our colleagues in state health. Service delivery in the two sectors is very different, with state ...