Programmes of care are delivered by nurses working in the community to PATIENTS with identified physical or mental illness or disability. These programmes of care correspond to the type of nurse providing the care.

Classification:

a.	District Nurses - providing general services
b.	Community Psychiatric Nurses - providing mental illness services
c.	Community Learning Disability Nurses - providing services to people with learning disabilities. Alternatively these nurses can also be known as Community Mental Handicap Nurses
d.	Other Community Nurses - providing other services
	i.	MacMillan Nurses
	ii.	Hospice Nurses
	iii.	Marie Curie Nurses
	iv.	Stomatherapists
	v.	Continence Nurses
	vi.	Premature Baby Nurses
	vii.	Diabetes Nurses
	viii.	Oncology Nurses
	ix.	Other terminal/cancer care Nurses
	x.	Catheter Nurses
	xi.	Breast Care Nurses
	xii.	Community Paediatric Nurses
	xiii.	Other Specialist Nurse

 

This attribute is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	COMMUNITY NURSE STAFF GROUPS