Annotated Bibliography: Community Health / Public Health Nursing

Kuo, C. P., Hsieh, P. L., Chen, H. M., Yang, S. Y., Hsiao, Y. L., & Wang, S. L. (2021, August). Community Health Nursing Competency and Psychological and Organizational Empowerment of Public Health Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Survey. In Healthcare (Vol. 9, No. 8, p. 993). MDPI. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/8/993

In their article, Kuo and others explored the impact of public health nurses’ present community care nursing competencies on the organizational and psychological empowerment of public or community health services in Taiwan (Kuo et al., 2021). The researchers used a cross-sectional study design. They gave public or community health nurses self-developed design questionnaires (Kuo et al., 2021). The nurses were selected via the purposive sampling plan and engaged in community or public healthcare centres. The average score of CCNC (Community or public care competency in nursing) was 3.92 plus or minus 0.83. The average score for CE (Community Empowerment) was 3.66 plus or minus 0.90 (Kuo et al., 2021). This research showed that communication and age competencies are essential factors or elements in public or community health nurses in community workshops. Through the build-up of practical experiences and age, PHNs’ communication capability may be enhanced, further improving their organizational and psychological empowerment in the nursing profession.

Labrague, L. J., & De Los Santos, J. A. A. (2021). Prevalence and predictors of coronaphobia among frontline hospital and public health nurses. Public Health Nursing, 38(3), 382-389. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7753466/

In this article, the authors seek to evaluate the predators and the prevalence of coronaphobia in the public and hospital health nurses. The authors highlight that the coronavirus pandemic is among the leading global issues for most health care systems. The authors mention that at the start of the pandemic, various states’ health care systems, especially those in the low-generating nations, faced staffing shortages, scarcity of equipment and supplies, and many other logistic essentials to fight the coronavirus effectively (Labrague & De Los Santos, 2021). They add that the disease has affected chiefly the nursing sector. The authors state that the anxiety in nurses mainly comes from the fear of infecting others, such as peers, friends and family or being infected. The authors conclude that coronaphobia is widespread among frontline nurses of Filipino, especially among public health ones. They emphasized that interventions for addressing the coronaphobial in these forefront nurses in communities and hospitals should review the identified predictors. Last, they outline that coronaphobia can be alleviated by improving nurses’ resilience, which is a theoretically driven intervention.

Lee, G., Pickstone, N., Facultad, J., & Titchener, K. (2017). The future of community nursing: Hospital in the Home. British journal of community nursing, 22(4), 174-180. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/66973210/The_future_of_community_nursing_LEE_Published1April2017_GREEN_AAM.pdf

In their article, Lee and others note that with the elevating ageing populations who mostly have different long-term situations, there is an urgent requirement to have substitute kinds of care rather than the indigenous hospital-established care type (Lee et al., 2017). The authors describe the available service using the case of a seventy-eight-year-old woman referred by COPD. This case study evaluates the capability of managing, treating, and assessing an acutely-unwell individual with a new heart failure diagnosis in a society without hospitalization (Lee et al., 2017). According to the authors, this integrated or combined care type with integrative individuals is an excellent alternative to the indigenous care models in the community and acute surroundings.

Oltra-Rodríguez, E., Martínez-Riera, J. R., Mármol-López, M. I., Pastor-Gallardo, F. J., Gras-Nieto, E., & Holgado-Fernández, A. (2017). The training of specialists in family and community health nursing according to the supervisors of the teaching units. Enfermería Clínica (English Edition), 27(3), 179-185. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2445147917300322

In their article, Oltra-Rodriguez and others evaluate the present case of specialists’ training in community and family nursing from nurses overseeing teaching units’ perspective (Oltra-Rodríguez et al., 2017). The authors did an exploratory analysis or evaluation using a nominal group scheme of the additions created by 19 multidisciplinary representatives of teaching units in the community and family care or nursing from eleven Spanish autonomous societies (Oltra-Rodríguez et al., 2017). The authors weighted and categorized those additions. According to their findings, the sprouting categories of difficulties and strengths were associated with theoretical training, external support, the teaching organization and the official speciality programme, teaching unit structure, the training environment, and tutors (Oltra-Rodríguez et al., 2017). The authors concluded that Community and Family nursing training is a chance to enhance essential healthcare in necessary complex skills. They recommended support for practical training and the knowledge of training and speciality. They also noted that tutors were essential parts of the general process.

Pereira, F., Pellaux, V., & Verloo, H. (2018). Community health nurses’ belief and implementation of evidence‐based practice: A cross‐sectional descriptive study. Journal of clinical nursing, 27(9-10), 2052-2061. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jocn.14348

In their article, Pereira and others describe beliefs on proof-based practices and implementation record levels among CHNs independently operating in community healthcare points in Switzerland (Valais) (Pereira et al., 2018). The authors conducted a cross-sectional study with a sample size of 100. The beliefs on proof-based practices and implementation record levels were evaluated via validated scales. The authors also collected respondents’ professional and socio-demographic characteristics information and employed inferential and descriptive statistics to analyze the data (Pereira et al., 2018). After their evaluation, the authors concluded that the implementation of proof-based practices by CNAs independently operating in Valais healthcare points despite having positive beliefs about it.

Ritter, A. Z., Aronowitz, S., Leininger, L., Jones, M., Dowd, J. B., Albrecht, S., … & Kumar, A. (2021). Dear Pandemic: Nurses as key partners in fighting the COVID‐19 infodemic. Public Health Nursing, 38(4), 603-609. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/phn.12903

In their article, Ritter and others stated that the coronavirus situation and the proliferation deception have resulted in similar health issues for the public. They outlined that social media has provided a novel plan to escalate evidence-based communication to more people. In their paper, they explained science communication participation application in social media via a group of interdisciplinary female scientists in a movement known as Dear Pandemic. The authors stated that nurses are professionals who can be trusted and are taught therapeutic communication, which is essential to this movement. They stated that the Dear Pandemic Movement currently has about 97,000 people with multilingual and global impact. They concluded that public health approaches to deal with deception and control self-behaviour through social media indicate promise and need more investment to assist this novel distribution of scientific communication.

Schneider, A. R., Stephens, L. A., Marín, S. C. O., & Semenic, S. (2018). Benefits and challenges of a nursing service-learning partnership with a community of internally displaced persons in Colombia. Nurse Education in Practice, 33, 21.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1471595317308703

In their article, Schneider and others stated that service training partnership between health care environment and nursing program in a vulnerable society can be difficult to start but can provide more advantages for faculty, students, and the society served (Schneider et al., 2018). Their survey aimed to evaluate the advantages and problems of developing a service-training partnership between independent society and college nursing schemes for internally-replaced individuals in Colombia, Medellin. The authors conducted in-depth and semi-arranged interviews comprising 9 learners and ten professional nursing trainers who engaged in the service-training partnerships (Schneider et al., 2018). The authors noted that they audio-taped, transcribed and evaluated the interviews through qualitative content evaluation. They noted the following advantages of the survey: comparison development, community nursing duty appreciation, community participation, improved community care access by the members, and understanding of social factors that determine health. On the other side, the authors noted the following problems for service training: moral distress feelings, conflict with traditional biomedical strategies, and low value for community nursing (Schneider et al., 2018). Students and professors gave various recommendations for the scheme improvement, such as dissemination and documentation of service-training encounters, interdisciplinary cooperation, capability for individual care, and improved society autonomy.

Trent, M., Perin, J., Gaydos, C. A., Anders, J., Chung, S. E., Saeed, L. T., … & Butz, A. (2019). Efficacy of a technology-enhanced community health nursing intervention vs standard of care for female adolescents and young adults with pelvic inflammatory disease: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA network open, 2(8), e198652-e198652. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/article-abstract/2747480

In their article, Trent and others seek to evaluate the efficacy of TECH-N or rather technology-enhanced or improved community health nursing intervention versus quality care for enhancing PID self-control or management traits and a ninety-day-long prevalence of C trachomatis infection and N gonorrhoeae (Trent et al., 2019). Their clinical trial was done among females between 13 and 25 with minimum to average PID. The main result of their research was the prevalence of C trachomatis and N gonorrhoeae infection for a follow-up of 90 days. The authors discovered that young adults and adolescents had high chances of encountering decreases in C trachomatis and N gonorrhoeae positivity compared to the control group (Trent et al., 2019). Their findings or discoveries suggest that TECH-N intervention should be taken as a potential improvement of care standards or quality approaches for control and management of females, young adults and adolescents with minimum to average PID in town communities encountering notable STI disparities.

Varghese, R., & Chaudhari, J. (2018). Community Health Nursing-A Study to assess the Level of Job Satisfaction among Asha workers of Waghodia Taluka. Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, 8(2), 209-212. https://www.ijirmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/201707015.pdf

In their article, Varghese & Chaudhari (2018) evaluate the work satisfaction of ASHA or community health nurses. According to the authors, the work satisfaction of these individuals depends on cultural, social, and economic conditions. For instance, ASHA employees with insufficient wages encounter challenges in supporting their families. These challenges make the employees unsatisfied. The employees have also shown dissatisfaction with expectations of regular or good pay and incentives (Varghese & Chaudhari, 2018). The authors used a survey scheme and a descriptive research design to come up with their conclusions. The survey entailed ASHA employees under Dhiraj General Hospital (Varghese & Chaudhari, 2018). The authors discovered that approximately 25 per cent of the employees were dissatisfied with their work, while about 75 per cent expressed satisfaction. Therefore, there was no significant relationship between demographic variables and job satisfaction. The authors conclude that many ASHA employees were satisfied with their job and working conditions.

Yi, X., Jamil, N. A. B., Gaik, I. T. C., & Fee, L. S. (2020). Community nursing services during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Singapore experience. British Journal of Community Nursing, 25(8), 390-395. https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.8.390

In their article, YI and others highlighted how society nurses supported vulnerable ageing individuals with chronic health situations in Singapore (Yi et al., 2020). They noted that in the state of scaled-down society health and social service during the corona pandemic outbreak, the society nursing group embraced practices for preparedness for the pandemic. They outlined the nursing experience of the General Hospital of Singapore. The author outlines active screening, triage before the visit, team segregation, social distancing, and other measures to prevent the spread of the virus. They stated that society nursing groups supported ageing individuals during the corona situation, despite the problems (Yi et al., 2020). The authors stated that for continued care and hospital accessibility to be achieved during the lockdown, nurses employed teleconsultation, integrated partnerships, and virtual meetings. They also noted that the experience learned was essential to ensure developed future society nursing services in the healthcare sector (Yi et al., 2020). They concluded that schemed teleconsultation, as well as technical improvement, is essential in complementing the services.

References

Kuo, C. P., Hsieh, P. L., Chen, H. M., Yang, S. Y., Hsiao, Y. L., & Wang, S. L. (2021, August). Community Health Nursing Competency and Psychological and Organizational Empowerment of Public Health Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Survey. In Healthcare (Vol. 9, No. 8, p. 993). MDPI. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/8/993

Labrague, L. J., & De Los Santos, J. A. A. (2021). Prevalence and predictors of coronaphobia among frontline hospital and public health nurses. Public Health Nursing, 38(3), 382-389.

Lee, G., Pickstone, N., Facultad, J., & Titchener, K. (2017). The future of community nursing: Hospital in the Home. British journal of community nursing, 22(4), 174-180.

Oltra-Rodríguez, E., Martínez-Riera, J. R., Mármol-López, M. I., Pastor-Gallardo, F. J., Gras-Nieto, E., & Holgado-Fernández, A. (2017). The training of specialists in family and community health nursing according to the supervisors of the teaching units. Enfermería Clínica (English Edition), 27(3), 179-185.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2445147917300322

Pereira, F., Pellaux, V., & Verloo, H. (2018). Community health nurses’ belief and implementation of evidence‐based practice: A cross‐sectional descriptive study. Journal of clinical nursing, 27(9-10), 2052-2061.

Ritter, A. Z., Aronowitz, S., Leininger, L., Jones, M., Dowd, J. B., Albrecht, S., … & Kumar, A. (2021). Dear Pandemic: Nurses as key partners in fighting the COVID‐19 infodemic. Public Health Nursing, 38(4), 603-609. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/phn.12903

Schneider, A. R., Stephens, L. A., Marín, S. C. O., & Semenic, S. (2018). Benefits and challenges of a nursing service-learning partnership with a community of internally displaced persons in Colombia. Nurse Education in Practice, 33, 21.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1471595317308703

Trent, M., Perin, J., Gaydos, C. A., Anders, J., Chung, S. E., Saeed, L. T., … & Butz, A. (2019). Efficacy of a technology-enhanced community health nursing intervention vs standard of care for female adolescents and young adults with pelvic inflammatory disease: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA network open, 2(8), e198652-e198652. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/article-abstract/2747480

Varghese, R., & Chaudhari, J. (2018). Community Health Nursing-A Study to assess the Level of Job Satisfaction among Asha workers of Waghodia Taluka. Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, 8(2), 209-212.

Yi, X., Jamil, N. A. B., Gaik, I. T. C., & Fee, L. S. (2020). Community nursing services during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Singapore experience. British Journal of Community Nursing, 25(8), 390-395.https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.8.390