Community Nurses
Community nursing is a term covering all nurses working within the community setting.
The Trust employs the District Nurses and Health Visitors. The Practice Nurses are employed directly by the General Practitioners.
Working alongside these nurses are many other nurses employed by different authorities, access to whom may be obtained either directly or through hospital consultants or GPs.
Examples of specialist nurses are:
- Palliative care;
- Continence advisors;
- Stoma care advisors
- Community psychiatric nurses;
- Diabetes nurses;
- Parkinson's Disease;
- Respiratory;
- School nurses;
- Infection control;
Community nurses work in partnership with Social Services, police, housing associations, local councils, and volunteer agencies.
The community is a very important training environment for student nurses and other health related students. They gain valuable skills from seeing patients in their own home setting.