public health nursing/ community health

Community Health Issue

Introduction

Research is an important and essential component of evidence-based nursing practice . In contrast to the clinical setting , community-based nursing has important roles to play in implementing a collaborative care plan where the patient and the family , all participate to improve the deficiency in self-care . Education based on nursing theory plays a very significant role in developing a care plan based on family assessment This becomes a prominent and potentially sensitive issue when public healthcare issues , such as , HIV is considered to be a disease or problem

to be dealt with in the community . In conformity with the Healthy People 2010 plan , HIV is one of the major community issues that might be effectively treated and cared for in the family and also in the community by educated interventions and community nursing care plan This analyzes the issues associated with this and proposes a care plan in the community following Orem 's theory of nursing

Community and Community Health Issue

Since discovery in 1981 , Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has been a burning health problem in the American community . It is now known that the virus causing this disease is HIV . It is also recognized that the growing and terrifying problem of AIDS in the USA is part of a global pandemic . It does not spare any age group , any ethnic group , any geographical location , or any socioeconomic group . Data regarding its worrying spread is actually awesome statistically , AIDS epidemic is composed of a diverse array of subepidemics involving wide regions and community . This problem is further complicated by very expensive treatment , social stigma , dangerous sexual behavior , and inadequate resources to face the problem . As expected , by the end of 1998 , more than 680 ,000 cases of AIDS have been reported , and the estimated number of people infected with HIV is about 900 ,000 (Majumdar , B .B , Chambers T .L , and Roberts , J , 2004

Reason for Selection

It is a scientific fact that AIDS subepidemics vary by community and region , but population , risk behavior , and geography play important roles in its manifestation . In areas where African American and Hispanic communities prevail , it has been found that the rate of infection is very high . As a result , elimination of the infection or at least reduction of the rate of infection in such population is a challenge Since other factors that the virulence of the virus play important roles in persistence of this infection and its spread , family nursing interventions in the community level has important role to play , and the nursing intervention care plan would involve mainly improving the knowledge of people in the community in modifying social attitude changing behavior , and providing support

of the Issue /Problem

It is to be noted that although recently introduced therapies for HIV /AIDS have reduced illness , disability , and deaths , still the access to therapy and tests that are culturally and linguistically acceptable Apart from this , despite declines in the severity of the disease HIV /AIDS remains a significant cause...