PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

M Hemstrom

Publications and source records attributed to M Hemstrom.

3 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1994

GI nursing: the community health aspect.

Much of the research and literature regarding gastrointestinal nursing addresses concerns of clients in the hospital or outpatient setting. This article focuses on a larger clientele, the well elderly aggregate in the community. Implementation of the nursing process with participants of a local senior center indicated the need for a gastrointestinal education program. A GI health program with a long-range goal of reducing the number of deaths caused by colon cancer was developed and presented. The goal of the program was to educate individuals about colon cancer and the importance of early detection. In this article, the authors describe the application of the nursing process with a well elderly population and the results of that experience for the client and for the GI nurse in the community.

Aged↗
PubMedDate not supplied

The clinical specialist in community health nursing: a solution for the 21st century.

The clinical specialist (CS) in community health nursing (CHN) addresses health problems in populations and communities in ways that are different from and complimentary to strategies used by practitioners of individualized patient care. Four programs based on comprehensive assessments, systematic program planning, deliberate implementation, and both formative and summative evaluation are presented. The programs were developed by graduate students in the CHN clinical specialization major at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. With expert faculty guidance and a competency-driven program of study, strategies were implemented to promote the health of community-dwelling well elderly people, home health care nurses who provide service to patients with respiratory problems, and high school students in a private religious school. Experienced parish nurses also benefited from a program designed to enhance their skills in theological reflection. This article also describes the curricular design developed to educate this clinician for the 21st century. Lastly, continued attention to the dynamic criteria of the American Nurses Association Standards of Community Health Nursing Practice is recommended as crucial to the further development of this clinical specialization.

Adolescent↗