Nursing Practitioner Role and Outcome for Service in Primary Care Unit

Abstract

          Primary health services in Thailand, which are defined as health service units in close proximity to the people it services, are divided into two organizational units: sub-district health promotion hospitals and primary care units. The main roles of these units are to promote health, prevent disease, and provide rehabilitative nursing, including managing health risk factors at the individual, family, community and societal levels. As such, nurses play an important, comprehensive role in the primary care unit. The results of our study showed that most patients were satisfied with the health service provided by nurses in the primary care unit because these nurses provide holistic services, helping them to deal with physical, mental, social and environmental problems, while acting as both a consultant and educator to the patients as well.