The Application of the Nursing Care Process to the 3 Doctors for Every Thai Family Policy
The Application of the Nursing Care Process to the 3 Doctors for Every Thai Family Policy
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The 3 Doctors for Every Thai Family or the 3-Doctor Policy is a policy to create access to the health service system. The 1st doctor is a house doctor who is a village health volunteer (VHV) with responsibility to visit houses, and perform primary screening. The 2nd doctor is a public health doctor who is personnel in a primary health facility or subdistrict health promotion hospital, including registered nurses, pharmacists, community public health technical officers, or other professions with responsibility to implement health promotion and coordinate with the 1st doctor and the 3rd doctor. The 3rd doctor is a family doctor who is a doctor in a hospital with responsibility to provide treatment, give advice, and coordinate and refer for specialist treatment. Accordingly, 1 community health nurse as the 2nd doctor plays an important role to drive the implementation. This article is aimed at presenting the concept in the application of the nursing care process to the 2nd doctor implementation according to the 3-doctor policy in 5 steps: community health assessment, community problem diagnosis, problem-solving, planning, and health problem assessment. Under this role, the community health nurse is responsible for giving knowledge and advice, coordinating and managing work, and performing risk assessments on community health. This is an alternative way for community health nurses to act in defining a framework to generate good outcomes from work coordination and to achieve the creation of a public access policy.
* Corresponding Author, Ph.D., Faculty of Nursing, Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat University
** Associate Professor., Ph.D., Faculty of Public Health, Naresuan University
*** Assistant Professor Dr., Faculty of Nursing, Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat University
**** lecturer., Faculty of Nursing, Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat University
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