Community and Health Nursing
Task 4 Marie Lickliter
08/07/2013
The role of the major public health personnel includes assessing the immediate health needs and identifying the potential risks in the community. There are several team members who work together to accomplish this common goal. Team members provide epidemiology, environmental, medication services, food delivery, and sanitation services.
The public health nurse’s role is to assess the immediate community health needs, provides education, and information to prevent secondary conditions like food poisoning. The public health nurse’s role in the simulation was as a liaison for a patient in acute distress. She called the search and rescue team to quickly transport the patient to an operating hospital. She also assisted an asthma patient use a nebulizer while the electricity was still out. The nurse also orchestrated for medication refills, clean water for baby formula, and arranging transfers. The nurse also participated in preventive care by …show more content…
The person who is the liaison between every group is the command. The command personal maintains communication with every team member to ensure necessary tasks are completed. The planning personal would map out the areas of severe need and relay that information to logistics to allow the most critical areas to be serviced first. The logistics personal help allocate volunteers and team members to the necessary areas of need. Logistics would also help secure materials, like port potties for sanitation. The finance administration personal would determine what funds they were able to allocate to different needs. They would be able to assess which expense would come first, which would be shelter for victims, clean drinking water, and food