The Caring Community

Caring in the Community

Caring for doctors is caring for the community - RuDASA.

Take two dedicated, efficient doctor/ managers out of the mix at a deep rural district hospital and the local health care system begins to implode, leaving a nursing manager scrambling to re-assign remaining staff while the local population is left with the prospect of little more than a mediocre day hospital. The story of the 180-bed Madwaleni Hospital in the Mbashe sub-district (with a popula...

Building Caring Community Online

Community has historically provided an essential psycho-spiritual framework for nursing. Changes in communication technology pose challenges for nurses internationally who create communities across borders. This article discusses The Bamboo Bridge online community, a project responding to the global call for nursing education about the complementarity of nursing and healing traditions. The proj...

Community Vital Signs: Taking the Pulse of the Community While Caring for Patients.

In 2014 both the Institute of Medicine and the National Quality Forum recommended the inclusion of social determinants of health data in electronic health records (EHRs). Both entities primarily focus on collecting socioeconomic and health behavior data directly from individual patients. The burden of reliably, accurately, and consistently collecting such information is substantial, and it may ...

Partners in Caring and Community: service-learning in nursing education.