Community Nurse Role In Hip Replacement

Community Nurse Role In Hip Replacement

Introduction

This paper will focus on Mrs. Vera Chatsworth's hip joint replacement, the main physical processes and the structures involved, the key biopsychological factors that may influence the patient's experience of this problem and how consideration of these factors that may influence the management and outcome of the case. Aslo we provide definition of Community nurse role and responsibilities.

Community Nurse Role

The community nurse acts as a teacher and counselor primarily, but also plays an important role in preventing widespread illness and disease in the community she serves. Across the United States and in Great Britain, they're called other names in addition to community nurse, including public health nurse and community health nurse. However, the primary roles remain the same. A community nurse has a role to play in helping to build the community she serves. A healthy community is a strengthened community, and a competent and compassionate community nurse plays a vital role. To that end, a community nurse is responsible for building relationships and partnerships throughout the community, in order to improve the health of individuals and families. As someone who seeks to help strengthen and build the community around her, the nurse acts as an advocate as well. As an advocate, nurses can ask for additional resources to help the community and make others aware of the health concerns of that community.

Discussion

The hip is a ball and socket joint. The ball is the femoral head, which forms three-fourths of a sphere. The socket is the acetabulum, which is not a true hemisphere, but rather forms a horseshoe-shaped joint surface with a depression in the middle called the fossa. The transverse acetabular ligament connects the bony portions to complete the rim of the socket. The ligamentum teres arises from the confluence of the acetabular fossa, and the transverse ligament then inserts into a small depression in the femoral head. This structure provides the head with blood flow early in development, but it is not essential for blood flow in adults.

The ligamentum teres does appear to provide some stability for the hip, especially in the flexed/abducted/externally rotated position or with hyperabduction. The anterior rim of the acetabulum has a small depression called the psoas notch; the iliopsoas muscle tendon is located extracapsularly in this area. The iliopsoas attaches to the lesser trochanter of the femur and functions as the primary flexor of the hip. A series of ligaments connects the acetabulum to the femoral neck; collectively, this structure is called the hip capsule (More, 2005).

The hip joint allows the leg an amazingly wide range of motion. Luckily, the joint itself is relatively simple, mechanically-a ball-and-socket arrangement in which the rounded upper end of the femur moves inside the acetabulum, a socket in the pelvis. In the operation, the worn or diseased end of the femur is replaced with a new ball part, and the worn and damaged parts of the acetabulum are removed and replaced with a ...