Working as a Nurse in the Community

Yes

No

1. Use the best scientific evidence available

2. Systematically document and evaluate their own practice

3. Multidimensional community health needs assessment to implement appropriate clinical interventions and care management

4. Development of nurse leadership and decision-making skills to ensure clinical and healthcare effectiveness and appropriateness

5. Plan, implement and assess nursing care to meet the needs of individuals, families, and the community within their scope of competence

6. Alleviate patient suffering even during end of life

7. Manage change and act as agents for change to improve family and community nursing practice

8. Coordinate and be accountable for attributing community healthcare activities to support workers

9. Mentoring students to promote the health, and prevent disease and injuries, and wellbeing of individuals and their families and communities

10. Accountability for the outcomes of nursing care in individuals, families, and the community

11. Involve individuals and families in decisions concerning their own health and wellbeing

12. Identify and assess the health status and health needs of individuals and families within the context of their cultures and communities

13. Apply educational strategies to promote health and safety of individuals and families

14. Managing disparity and diversity and fostering inclusiveness

15. Enhance and promote health and prevent disease and injuries in individuals, families and communities even focusing on inequities and unique needs of subpopulations

16. Analytic assessment, cultural competence, program planning, and community dimensions of practice to pursue community health promotion goals together with the community multidisciplinary team

17. Defining of research areas and problems

18. Work together with the multidisciplinary team to prevent disease and promote and maintain health

19. Participate in the prioritization of activities of the multidisciplinary team to address problems related to health and illness

20. Leadership and development, implementation, and evaluation of policies for the family and the community for purposes of health promotion

21. Demonstrates the ability to educate, support, facilitate, encourage, and promote the health, well-being, and comfort of the population, communities, groups, and individuals, whose lives are affected by the state of health, distress, illness, disability, or death

22. Make decision based on professional ethical standards

23. Communication competencies based on evidence in relation to a specific context

24. Assess the social, cultural, and economic context of patients and their families

25. Maintain intra-professional and inter-professional relationships and a supportive role with colleagues to ensure that professional standards are met

26. Set standards and evaluate the outcomes related to nursing activities in people’s homes and in the community

27. Monitoring people affected by chronic and rare illnesses in one community in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team

28. Development of health education in the school environment, also with a view to a safe environment

29. Health promotion, education, treatment, and monitoring supported by ICTs (e-Health)

30. Ability to negotiate healthcare with patients and their families, with the multidisciplinary team, and healthcare centers