Assessment Task: Written Assignment
Description:
PLEASE READ VERY CAREFULLY FOR THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW
Details of task:
IDENTIFY ONE area of health need in Churchill, Gippsland, Victoria ( In australia).
AND
Discuss how you as a nurse can assist in addressing this need.
This is required to be an academic essay and will draw on your understanding of HEALTH PROMOTION, PRIMARY HEALTH CARE and RURAL HEALTH NEEDS.
WRITE ABOUT being close to mines and regards fires in Jan and Feb (BLACK SATURDAY) I would do either respiratory in general, asthma.
Discuss how you as a nurse can assist in addressing this need.
Get some data…set up clinics for monitoring such as spirometry checks etc… the gov has just announced some sought of monitoring of this community for the next 20 yrs to assess the community health, act on it and address all its problems.
They are already implementing it and doing spirometry for persons living within the radius of the fires at the mines. you have been going through patients notes each day and flagging those whose address is in these areas. the doctor then asks if they want to be part of the initiative and be monitored. RESEARCH MORE ON ASSISTING THE NEED.
The clinic gets extra pay for being part of it at the primary care end…they then get results and put in place education, treatment etc… for better respiratory outcomes.
VERY IMPORTANT IN-TEXT REFERENCING – AT EVERY PARAGRAPH OR STATEMENT USE IN-TEXT REFERENCING
please use references from year 2009 to 2014. No 2008,2007 etc. no lower than yr 2009.