Community Healthcare Sligo Leitrim is responsible for the delivery of Primary and Community-based Services to meet the needs of local communities.
Community healthcare services are the broad range of services provided outside of the acute hospital system, including Primary Care, Social Care, Mental Health, and Health and Wellbeing Services. These services are delivered through the HSE and its funded agencies to people in local communities, as close as possible to people’s homes.
Description
The Public Health Nursing Service is a generalist service underpinned by the principles and values of primary care and public health, including equity and accountability. The Service is client-focused, needs assessed, and quality-driven. The person-centred, holistic approach of the Public Health Nursing Service is based on client assessment using the Roper Logan Tierney model and Orem’s Self-care Intervention ethos. High standards of evidence-based care are maintained through ongoing professional development and are demonstrated by evaluation and clinical audit. Public Health Nursing staff members work as part of multi-disciplinary primary care teams and understand that effective communication and collaboration within these teams are integral to improving health outcomes for clients in the community. The Service is committed to proactively developing community nursing in response to the changing health needs of society and to integrated working with acute and community hospitals to ensure a safe and seamless service.
The Public Health Nursing Service is delivered within a range of settings: in the home, health centres, schools, and in various community settings. As pivotal members of the primary care team, Public Health Nursing staff collaborate and partner with other members of the primary care team, acute/community hospital services, voluntary bodies, and statutory and non-statutory agencies. Care Plans, assessment tools, and documentation templates have been designed for the assessment and monitoring of individual clients to support the delivery of nursing care.
The Public Health Nursing service provides services to:
1. Antenatal and postnatal mothers
2. Infants, preschool and school-age children
3. Adults and older persons
4. Persons of all ages with a physical, sensory, and/or intellectual disability
5. Clients with an acute, chronic, or terminal illness
6. Ethnic minority groups, e.g., the Traveller Community, those seeking asylum in Ireland, and clients with diverse cultural needs.
In addition to working as a member of the Primary Care team, there may be opportunities for RGNs to work in the Community Intervention team, CDM Hub, or the School Immunisation team.
The Community Intervention team provides a home nursing service within a defined geographical area 7 days a week. The goal of the service is to facilitate early discharge, avoid unnecessary hospital admission, and maintain clients in their own home.
Treatments are delivered in the CIT clinic or the client’s home.
Strong links have been developed with the acute services and primary care teams.
The service is evolving and growing as it seeks to support the HSE vision of a decisive shift to primary care by ensuring that the vast majority of patients and clients who require urgent or planned care are managed within primary and community-based settings.
The School Immunisation team delivers the School vaccination programme to eligible children in all Primary and Secondary Schools across Cavan and Monaghan over the school academic year, with additional catch-up clinics held during school holidays as required.
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