Ana Isabel Nogales GarcÃa
Hospital Universitario Infanta SofÃa
Title: Organization and Functions performed by the community nursing in Spain
Biography
Biography: Ana Isabel Nogales GarcÃa
Abstract
The community nursing carries out a large number of functions that have been defining and improved as it has evolved the family and community medicine in Spain. It has gone from simple accompaniment of the doctor in consultation by filling in flyers or recipes, to have his own agenda and multiple functions, they are evaluated by how complete plans of care of patients who attend daily both on demand and scheduled, and its function is gaining autonomy and complexity with the creation of the figure of the nurse case manager. To describe every day of a primary nurse can be very varied, a normal day begins with the completion of blood extractions in the laboratory, then go to your inquiry where depending on the patient, must carry out both preventive activities for health, health education and tracking features (nutrition education, diabetes, weight management, blood pressure control ...), vaccination, desensitization allergens etc; to long in the morning may be required, at the request of their medical Associates, for the realization of cures, electrocardiograms, and other complementary tests available. Usually, they end the day with home visits, they attend to elderly patients, terminals or with problems of mobilization which limits them go to the health center. Functions performed continue to define, recently assigned follow-up of hospitalized patients calling to discharge the patient's home to worry about the situation and according to the same take appropriate measures.