Community Rural Nursing
The barriers of access to better health services by rural population have been identified as; lack of health care professional, cost and limited access to specific services and lack of culturally acceptable services (Hegney, Pearson and McCarthy, 1997). In most remote parts of Papua New Guinea, there are few qualified health professional working and limited or no medical resources available to carter for the people. It’s because there were no road links or deteriorated infrastructure because of the government negligence to build better road network and renovate the damage or ruin health care facilities.
The case study will be elaborating on the significance of rural nursing with regard to emergencies situations in the remote areas. The primary nurse in charge of the rural facility will also describe the scope of rural and remote nursing and also stress on nursing measures and interventions integrating the nursing concepts and theories and explaining the impact of environment of a person. During the Christmas games at Purosa village in Eastern Highlands Province, there was an incident were one of the rugby league players was hit on the head with an iron rod. The fight started between two drunken supporters outside the field and later emerged into the playing field. The players were surprised as to how the fight started and why they were fighting with each other. On the scene the particular player was badly injured and was brought to the clinic. They travelled almost five hours before they reached Okapa rural health centre. Upon arrival at the clinic he was diagnosed with brain injury. The patient was identified as John Dua from Chimbu married to Joyce Kurari from Purosa. This rural health clinic gets to dealt with similar cases since 2005.
Most of the rural dwellers find it difficult to travel to Okapa station health centre because of the fact that it is severely understaffed, with not enough medicine and the health facility being run down.
The case study will be elaborating on the significance of rural nursing with regard to emergencies situations in the remote areas. The primary nurse in charge of the rural facility will also describe the scope of rural and remote nursing and also stress on nursing measures and interventions integrating the nursing concepts and theories and explaining the impact of environment of a person. During the Christmas games at Purosa village in Eastern Highlands Province, there was an incident were one of the rugby league players was hit on the head with an iron rod. The fight started between two drunken supporters outside the field and later emerged into the playing field. The players were surprised as to how the fight started and why they were fighting with each other. On the scene the particular player was badly injured and was brought to the clinic. They travelled almost five hours before they reached Okapa rural health centre. Upon arrival at the clinic he was diagnosed with brain injury. The patient was identified as John Dua from Chimbu married to Joyce Kurari from Purosa. This rural health clinic gets to dealt with similar cases since 2005.
Most of the rural dwellers find it difficult to travel to Okapa station health centre because of the fact that it is severely understaffed, with not enough medicine and the health facility being run down.