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Public Health Nursing Older Person Services at Carnew Primary Care Centre

Address

Carnew Primary Care Centre, Gorey Road, Carnew, Wicklow, Y14 PY64

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Opening hours

Monday to Friday, 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm

Older person services

Public health nursing is a community based service aimed at promoting and protecting community health. Public health nurses, community registered general nurses and health care attendants deliver care across the lifespan to individuals, families and communities .The focus of the service is to promote health and well-being, protect the public and provide clinical nursing care to the population through the delivery of high quality evidence-based practice. This service can be provided in the home or the clinic as appropriate. The PHN service provides a wide range of services to older persons over 65 years. This includes holistic nursing assessment, appropriate clinical care and onward referrals as necessary to other allied health professionals.The PHN service will assess for home support services as appropriate. Providing advice on a healthy lifestyle and information of local services and organisations is central to enabling people to remain independent for as long as possible.

Referrals and Appointments

Who needs to refer you

GP, acute hospitals, PHN, referral

Referral information

E-referral, referral letter, medical records, x-rays, scans, medical list

Internal directions

Go to main reception and request public health nursing

Service delivery type

Face to face

Catchment area

Carnew and surrounding areas

Service location

This service is in Carnew Primary Care Centre.

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