{"id":158,"date":"2010-11-25T14:08:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T14:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=158"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:21:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:21:30","slug":"role-of-the-district-or-community-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Role of the District or Community Nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>District or community nurses<\/strong> mainly visit patients at home. They can be assisted by <strong>nursing auxiliaries<\/strong> who may visit to assist with tasks which\u00a0need two workers. Their role includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support at home for the patient and carer<\/li>\n<li>Treatments such as wound dressings, injections, health monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Practical advice on aspects of health care at home such as diet, lifestyle, what medication is for<\/li>\n<li>Arranging equipment such as commodes, beds, hoists<\/li>\n<li>Arranging for disposable items such as incontinence pads<\/li>\n<li>Support for patient and carer\u00a0after hospital discharge<\/li>\n<li>Assist in coordinating care needs and ensuring equality of health care for vulnerable people<\/li>\n<li>Support for frail elderly and their carers to live healthy lives at home for as long as possible<\/li>\n<li>Advice on moving and handling at home<\/li>\n<li>End of life or palliative care for people who have a terminal illness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(add picture of community nurse)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>District or community nurses mainly visit patients at home. They can be assisted by nursing auxiliaries who may visit to assist with tasks which\u00a0need two workers. Their role includes: Support at home for the patient and carer Treatments such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,95,94],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-districtcommunity-nurse","tag-moving-and-handling","tag-palliative-care-or-end-of-life-care"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6408,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}