Community health nursing, also called public health nursing or community nursing, combines primary healthcare and nursing practice in a community setting. Community health (CH) nurses provide health services, preventive care, intervention, and health education to communities or populations.
Below is Community Health Nurse Salary In Ghana
Roles of a community health nurse.
Let’s look at the role of the community health nurse below:
The community health nurse is involved in offering advice or counsel to clients concerning their health.
This borders around the kind of diet to eat in order to remain healthy and also other lifestyle changes the person needs to make to remain in good health and to prevent disease. Health education sessions are also offered to specific groups depending on the topic.
For instance: expectant mothers and nursing mothers can be educated on pregnancy and conditions that affect children and how to prevent them respectively.
The community health nurse works with other health workers to plan on the best ways to treat the client by assessing the client’s health problems. The client’s family and relatives are involved in the provision of care and are well informed on the status of the client.
The community health nurse utilizes resources available to the community to assist in caring for the client.
These resources can be money and even organizations that help those in need in society.
In the case where the client has no income to pay for health care and has no relatives to help out, the nurse can connect the client to social welfare to render assistance.
In such situations, they serve as advocates because they speak on behalf of their clients to the organizations involved.
They are also involved in immunization exercises in the community as well as follow-up trips to check on clients.
Community health nurses treat patients in their homes to prevent them from spreading or catching illnesses.
Especially those with communicable diseases.
Community health nurses are majorly involved in offering preventive services to the community.
This can be seen in the roles they play in the community.
What determines the salary of community health nurses?
Rank
Nurses’ salaries vary based on the different ranks they find themselves in.
This means that those of high rank receive higher salaries.
Area of work (public or private)
Also, the salaries of the private sector nurses vary from those in the public sector, however, the focus of this article is on community health nurses in the government sector.
Qualification
Usually, community health nurses have a certificate, diploma, or degree in their area of study.
Community health nurses salary.
Community health nurses in Ghana earn around 20,826 Ghana Cedis to 27,768 Ghana Cedis per year.
This is after-tax deductions have been made from it.
Nurses in Ghana are advocating for an increase in their salaries in recent times.
What is the salary of a degree nurse in Ghana?
The current salary scale is stated below:
Certificate nurses – They earn GHS 700 monthly. Diploma nurses, GHS 900/1400 and above monthly.
Degree holders, GHS 1600/2000 per month.