title: GI nursing: the community health aspect.
abstract: Much of the research and literature regarding gastrointestinal nursing addresses concerns of clients in the hospital or outpatient setting. This article focuses on a larger clientele, the well elderly aggregate in the community. Implementation of the nursing process with participants of a local senior center indicated the need for a gastrointestinal education program. A GI health program with a long-range goal of reducing the number of deaths caused by colon cancer was developed and presented. The goal of the program was to educate individuals about colon cancer and the importance of early detection. In this article, the authors describe the application of the nursing process with a well elderly population and the results of that experience for the client and for the GI nurse in the community.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Huber
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hemstrom
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process