Community based nursing

Community-Based Nursing: Analysis and Application
Essay and Presentation
Rachel A. Long
South Dakota State University










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Sometimes We Should Just Cry by Barb Mannenbach

“Sometimes I wonder if, when we want some action on behalf of the children we visit, we should just cry.” “Sometimes We Should Just Cry” is a story about a public health nurse who is asked to go with the police to see a family she had previously visited. They were investigating a report that the children were not being cared for properly. When they arrived at the home, the heat was unbearable and the stench of the house made them nauseated. There were eight children from two different families in the home along with five adults. All of the children were covered with scabies, and the baby was skin and bones. “The baby looked like he was from some famine-struck third world country.” After the police saw the nurse cry at this terrible site, they removed the children from t...