New faculty to drive forward inclusion health nursing
Nurses working with marginalised communities, such as those who are homeless, have to be creative to meet their patients’ needs, a leader in the field has said. The remarks came as part of the launch of the. . .
Nurses working with marginalised communities, such as those who are homeless, have to be creative to meet their patients’ needs, a leader in the field has said. The remarks came as part of the launch of the new Homeless and Inclusion Health Nursing Faculty by the Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing (QICN). “Nurses in this field work at the interface of real social and health inequalities”Kirit SehmbiThe faculty will bring together all of the QICN’s existing work in this area and provide a space for homeless and inclusion health nurses to network and share best practice. Speaking at the launch, Kirit Sehmbi, Homeless and Inclusion Health Nursing Faculty Lead at the QICN, said the hope was to offer “even greater support in an area of nursing that is consistently at the forefront of innovation”. “Nurses in this field work at the interface of real social and health inequalities and must think creatively to address them,” she added. The launch, hosted by Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, marked a “major step forward in tackling health inequalities”, said the QICN. Inclusion health nurses work with various marginalised groups including people experiencing homelessness, Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, Boater and Showmen communities, vulnerable migrants and sex workers. Amber Broughton, specialist community outreach nurse and health outreach inclusion service team leader at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals, described the launch of the faculty as “landmark”.