ROLES OF DPHNO IN COMMUNITY

VARIOUS ROLES OF DPHNO..

1. DPHNO M.SC.(N) Ist YEAR

2. Introduction : - The role of District Public Health Nurses (DPHN) and District Public Health Nurse Officers (DPHNOs) as supervisors of the Public Health nursing and midwifery staff in a district was investigated . Public health nurses integrate community involvement and knowledge about the entire population with personal, clinical understandings of the health and illness experiences of individuals and families within the population .      

3. Definition District Public Health Nurses OR District Public Health Nursing Officers The District Public Health Nurses (DPHNs) are class III employees, originally part of the Maternal and Child Health division of Department of health.

4. Public Health Nurse Skills and Qualifications Verbal Communication, Health Promotion Maintenance, Listening Quality Management, Energy Level, Integrity, Infection Control, Informing Others, Nursing Skills, Medical Teamwork Multi-tasking

5. Evaluating health trends and risk factors of population groups and helping to determine priorities for targeted interventions. Working with communities or specific population groups within the community to develop public policy and targeted health

6. promotion and disease prevention activities. Participating in assessing and evaluating health care services to ensure that people are informed of available programs and services and assisted in the utilization of those services.

7. Providing essential input to interdisciplinary programs that monitor, anticipate, and respond to public health problems in population groups.

8. Providing health education, care management, and primary care to individuals and families who are members of vulnerable population and high-risk groups. Public health nurses provide a critical linkage between epidemiological data and clinical understanding of health and illness as it is experienced in peoples’ lives.

9. Public Health Nurse Job Duties: Serves patients by visiting homes; determining patient and family needs; developing health care plans; providing nursing services and treatments; referring patients with social and emotional problems to other community agencies. Helps the community health care team by coordinating assessment, planning, and providing of needed health and related services; participating in case conferences with physicians, hospital and rehabilitative personnel, and representative of other agencies.

10. Supervisory responsibilities Educational responsibly Carrying out Preventive Promotive curative rehabilitative care

11. SUPERVISORY RESONSIBILTIES Public health nurse supervisor, guides and supervises the functions of public health nurses , health workers , working in her assigned field She is responsible

12. Educational responsibly:- Organize the in-service education programe for all the nursing staff. Initiate and assist in planning and organizing the orientation programms for the new staff. Participate in community health field experience organized for nursing students of school or college

13. Suggest in selection of area for practical experience. Provide facilities and resources to students and staff Guide students during field experience. Help to supervise and guide the traditional birth attendants (TBAS).

14. Keep her knowledge updated by reading attending professional seminar and meeting etc. Assisting in development of the standard of health care with the accepted philosophy, objectives and health policies. Assisting in the preparation of budget for the community health department.

15. Utilize the budget allotted to the department (community) Supervision and guidance of PHN /LHV/FHW/MHW working in her field. Organizing educational programmes for the community members including school children, RCH group or other interested / targeted groups in her area.

16. Supervision of records / reports prepared by health workers working under her jurisdiction. Assisting the DPHN /DPHNO for the preparation of job description and assignment of responsibilities for other community health workers.

17. Nursing Adviser This is the post in the medical division of directorate general of health services.The nursing adviser is directly responsible to the deputy director general (medical) ,The nursing adviser is assisted by nursing officer and support staff for all her/his work.

18. Advices the DGHS, the ministry health family welfare as well as other ministries, departments e.g. railways, labor, Delhi