scholarly journals Giving Voice to School Nursing as a Primary Health Care Specialty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gillian D Alcorn
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
School Nursing ◽  
Student Health ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Autobiographical Poetry

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to give voice to school nursing as a primary health care specialty, and to promote the development of school nursing in New Zealand. School nursing is an invisible practice specialty that is largely funded from within the education sector, to address the health needs of student clients. School nursing is a significant primary health care initiative that can positively influence student health outcomes. My school nursing practice experience and philosophy is presented prior to reflecting upon the history of school nursing, and the health concerns present within the student population. The work then moves to review and critique school nursing literature from New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This thesis highlights the need for collaborative policy and practice development initiatives including a legislative requirement for school nurses, school nursing competencies and standards, school nurse to student ratios, postgraduate training, professional liaison, practice funding, and research. A discourse on the reflective topical autobiographical method introduces autobiographical poetry from school nursing practice and reflective inquiry, as the central research endeavour of this thesis. Autobiographical poetry is offered as a window to this specialty practice, and accompanying reflections allow access to a further layer of practice knowledge. Student health needs, the scope of nursing intewentions, and the essences of school nursing practice have been distilled from the poetry. Poetic representation and subsequent reflection has facilitated the development of a school nursing framework for use within the New Zealand context, entitled Health Mediation in School Nursing. School nursing is presented throughout this thesis as an important child and adolescent primary health care initiative, which has the potential to reduce health barriers to learning, improve student health outcomes, and build student success in the social, emotional, and educational domains.</p>

scholarly journals Giving Voice to School Nursing as a Primary Health Care Specialty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gillian D Alcorn
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
School Nursing ◽  
Student Health ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Autobiographical Poetry

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to give voice to school nursing as a primary health care specialty, and to promote the development of school nursing in New Zealand. School nursing is an invisible practice specialty that is largely funded from within the education sector, to address the health needs of student clients. School nursing is a significant primary health care initiative that can positively influence student health outcomes. My school nursing practice experience and philosophy is presented prior to reflecting upon the history of school nursing, and the health concerns present within the student population. The work then moves to review and critique school nursing literature from New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This thesis highlights the need for collaborative policy and practice development initiatives including a legislative requirement for school nurses, school nursing competencies and standards, school nurse to student ratios, postgraduate training, professional liaison, practice funding, and research. A discourse on the reflective topical autobiographical method introduces autobiographical poetry from school nursing practice and reflective inquiry, as the central research endeavour of this thesis. Autobiographical poetry is offered as a window to this specialty practice, and accompanying reflections allow access to a further layer of practice knowledge. Student health needs, the scope of nursing intewentions, and the essences of school nursing practice have been distilled from the poetry. Poetic representation and subsequent reflection has facilitated the development of a school nursing framework for use within the New Zealand context, entitled Health Mediation in School Nursing. School nursing is presented throughout this thesis as an important child and adolescent primary health care initiative, which has the potential to reduce health barriers to learning, improve student health outcomes, and build student success in the social, emotional, and educational domains.</p>

Effectiveness of Primary Health Care Services in Addressing Mental Health Needs of Minority Refugee Population in New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagamaya Shrestha-Ranjit ◽  
Elizabeth Patterson ◽  
Elizabeth Manias ◽  
Deborah Payne ◽  
Jane Koziol-McLain
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Services

Impact of community participation in primary health care: what is the evidence?

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessamy Bath ◽  
John Wakerman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Intermediate Outcomes ◽  
The Impact

Community participation is a foundational principle of primary health care, with widely reputed benefits including improved health outcomes, equity, service access, relevance, acceptability, quality and responsiveness. Despite considerable rhetoric surrounding community participation, evidence of the tangible impact of community participation is unclear. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to locate and evaluate evidence of the impact of community participation in primary health care on health outcomes. The findings reveal a small but substantial body of evidence that community participation is associated with improved health outcomes. There is a limited body of evidence that community participation is associated with intermediate outcomes such as service access, utilisation, quality and responsiveness that ultimately contribute to health outcomes. Policy makers should strengthen policy and funding support for participatory mechanisms in primary health care, an important component of which is ongoing support for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services as exemplars of community participation in Australia. Primary health-care organisations and service providers are encouraged to consider participatory mechanisms where participation is an engaged and developmental process and people are actively involved in determining priorities and implementing solutions.

Understanding the general practice nursing workforce in New Zealand: an overview of characteristics 2015–19

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Sarah L. Hewitt ◽  
Nicolette F. Sheridan ◽  
Karen Hoare ◽  
Jane E. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Nursing Workforce ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Role Confusion

Limited knowledge about the nursing workforce in New Zealand general practice inhibits the optimal use of nurses in this increasingly complex setting. Using workforce survey data published biennially by the Nursing Council of New Zealand, this study describes the characteristics of nurses in general practice and contrasts them with the greater nursing workforce, including consideration of changes in the profiles between 2015 and 2019. The findings suggest the general practice nursing workforce is older, less diverse, more predominately New Zealand trained and very much more likely to work part-time than other nurses. There is evidence that nurses in general practice are increasingly primary health care focused, as they take on expanded roles and responsibilities. However, ambiguity about terminology and the inability to track individuals in the data are limitations of this study. Therefore, it was not possible to identify and describe cohorts of nurses in general practice by important characteristics, such as prescribing authority, regionality and rurality. A greater national focus on defining and tracking this pivotal workforce is called for to overcome role confusion and better facilitate the use of nursing scopes of practice.

Medical Students Training In Community Settings: An Essential Requirement To Meet Growing Health Needs Of Pakistani Population

2018 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Sara Shakil
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Essential Requirement ◽  
Pakistani Population ◽  
Primary Health

The successful provision of adequate primary health care delivery for the underprivileged population in the Asian subcontinent has remained a pressing issue over quite some time. Major reforms in health professions education have taken place across the globe including Asia. Unfortunately, the health education system implemented in Southern Asia (including Pakistan, India, Bangladesh etc.) has not been able to decrease morbidity and decrease the figures of adult and infant mortality rates in this region

scholarly journals Emancipatory practices of nurses in primary health care: the home visit as an instrument of health needs assessment

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (spe) ◽  
pp. 119-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celia Maria Sivalli Campos ◽  
Bárbara Ribeiro Buffette Silva ◽  
Deisi Cristine Forlin ◽  
Carla Andréa Trapé ◽  
Iara de Oliveira Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Home Visit ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Primary Health

Objective Identify nurses’ emancipatory practices in primary care, to contribute to the improvement of health care. Method A case study type social research of qualitative nature, in which nurses of a primary health care service unit in São Paulo were interviewed. Results The home visit was identified as a nursing practice possible to be expanded in order to identify social determinants of health, triggering emancipatory practices in the service. This expansion occurred because the design of health care labour intended by the service team changed its focus from the traditional object of health services, the disease. Conclusion First, it is advocated that social policies lead projects with the purpose of improving health needs. On the other hand, the daily labour needs to provide opportunities for reflection and discussion of healthcare projects, leading workers to propose labour-processes targeted to both the social determinants of health and people’s illness.

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