Healthcare Partnership in the Community
Discuss an example of healthcare partnership in your community and specifically cite examples that show how nurses, both individually and collectively, influenced the care provided. What obstacles were confronted and what strategies were employed in order to effectively overcome them.
One community healthcare partnership that is salient in my mind is Texas Department of State Health Services' program on tuberculosis or TB. This group of projects is specifically handled by the Office of Border Health, specifically because communicable diseases transmitted over the Texas-Mexico border will inadvertently affect the state of community health of both countries (i.e., the U.S. And Mexico). Under the program, two projects have been successful and known for its accomplishment in helping decrease TB prevalence in communities near the Texas-Mexico border: Proyecto Juntos and TBNet.
Proyecto Juntos specifically centers on "bilateral TB control," centering its efforts to curbing TB prevalence by monitoring the health of individuals crossing the border daily. Most especially, the project centers its efforts in monitoring the health north-bound travelers, as TB prevalence is higher in Mexico compared to the U.S. The specific service/implementation sites for the project are the towns/cities of El Paso, Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua. TBNet, meanwhile, is another initiative under the TB program of the Office of Border Health, wherein TB patients are monitored and treatment is facilitated efficiently through process improvements in TB treatment, through improved monitoring and documentation systems and implementation of new technologies. The TBNet project makes use of a "wallet-sized portable treatment records," central storehouse system of patient records, and toll-free helpline, which make TB treatment and follow-through more accessible, available and...
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