Community nursing
Community nursing is nursing care delivered outwith acute hospitals, for example in the home, within General Practice facilities, in community hospitals, in police custody, at a school or in a care home.
The job functions covered include:
- Ambulatory care nursing
- Assisted living
- Faith community nursing
- Flight nurse
- Gerontological nursing
- Home care
- Home health nursing
- Hospice home health
- Care Home Nurse
- Community Children's Nurse
- Community Mental Health/Psychiatric Nurse
- Community Learning Disability Nurse
- Community Midwife
- Criminal Justice/Prison Nurse
- District Nurse
- General Practice Nurse
- Health Visitor
- Homeless Outreach Nurse
- Nurses working in unscheduled care, e.g. working with paramedics
- Occupational Health Nurse
- Palliative Care Nurse
- Public Health Nurse
- Sexual Health Nurse
- Military nurse
- Nurse-Family Partnership
- Private duty nursing
- School nursing
- Telenursing
