Nurse practitioners are particularly prepared to work with those kinds of people and in those kinds of settings because of community health preparation that we get in our nursing programs."
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The government also said it was trialling a communitynursing scheme in four health board areas, where teams would assess children for mental health issues.
Discussing the issue of NHS reform on BBC Radio Wales, Dame June Clark, emeritus professor of communitynursing, said change had generally been resisted for "years and years and years".
Veterans can also receive nursing home care from some communitynursing homes that have established contracts with the VA. These partnerships allow veterans to receive long-term nursing home care in their own communities so that they can stay near their loved ones.