Home Visit for Applying Family Nursing: A Perspective

Abstract

The paradigm shift from hospital-based care to community-based care lead role of health workers in Primary Health Care became an important part in improving public welfare through the field of health. A community nurse is required to be able to make approaches to the community, including conducting a home visit, in order to increase public awareness and concern for their health level.Keywords: Home visit, family empowering, family nursing

Covid-19 Salgınına Karşı Güçlü Bir Cephe: Aile Sağlığı Hemşireliği

“…3 Home care visits are carried out to address the health issues and needs of family members with chronic illnesses, HIV, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases. 4 Home visits under the auspices of family health services have gained even more significance in this period of the COVID-19 pandemic. In these days of the pandemic, family health nurses, equipped with the necessary protective apparatus, are making home visits to provide families with useful training regarding isolation and quarantine, thereby contributing to raising levels of knowledge and awareness about the pandemic, reducing anxieties, and minimizing the risk factors related to the environment, nutrition, hygiene, and contact.…”

“…Additionally, families that have contracted the virus may feel afraid of being isolated from healthcare providers or the community itself. 4 This is why families must be provided psychosocial support and the issue of stigmatization should be openly discussed.…”