¶ … Lois Gerber emphasizes the duties and responsibilities of community health nurses in homes. And Gerber also explains the flexibility and freedom that community health nurses have within the context of their service. When a professional healthcare professional is providing services away from the authoritarian environment of a hospital or clinic, that nurse who serves in a home setting needs to be strong on self-motivation, "self-reliance," and must be "adaptable" and a strong self-starter (Gerber, 2012). This paper reviews the details of what skills and experiences a community nurse must have in order to be effective.
What a Community Nurse Must Know and Offer in terms of Services
A community nurse's obligations and resources are unique in that the nurse has far more autonomy, and far more "control over" the situation in a home healthcare environment, Gerber explains on page 19. The training that a community nurse has gone through it vitally important because in a patient's home the nurse has to rely on experience and training, since there is no supervising nurse or doctor to give instructions. What medications are most appropriate for the home-based patient? What special diet is appropriate, and what exercise routines should be followed...
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