Community-Based Nursing Practice

Using the assigned readings and information from the literature, compose a response to the following:

Discuss the required skills and competencies of a RN in the community setting. Do these differ from those required in an acute care setting? Explain your answer. The RN working in the community setting faces a number of challenges which include but are not limited to: infection control practices, patient/family privacy, families’ financial concerns and personal safety. Choose one of the challenges and explain actions the RN can do to minimize its effect.
assigned reading:

Hinkle, J., & Cheever, K. (2014). Brunner and Suddarth’s textbook of medical-surgical nursing (13th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Chapter 2: Community-Based Nursing Practice
Hunt, R. (2013). Introduction to community-based nursing (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.
Chapter 1: Overview of Community-Based Nursing
Chapter 2: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Chapter 11: Practice Settings and Specialties
Chapter 12: Home Health Care Nursing
Chapter 16: Trends in Community-Based Nursing
Nursing Diagnosis
Use your chosen Nursing Diagnosis Guidebook to review the nursing diagnoses specific to the content covered in this module.
Treas, L. & Wilkinson, J. (2014). Basic nursing: Concepts, skills and reasoning. Philadelphia, PA: FA Davis.
Chapter 41: Community and Home Nursing