“Working as a nurse in Vision Quest is very rewarding. I’m able to work in a service line unique to southern Iowa and I’m also able to help patients improve their self-respect and quality of life.”
Lisa Cox, RN, Vision Quest Director
Community Health: Community-Based Services
Community-based services promote the health and wellness of the community.
Examples of community-based services include the following:
- Child Care Nurse Consultant (educates staff, parents, and children about the health and safety of children within the child care setting. The consultant provides services like on site visits to daycare settings, infant massage, identifies resources within the community, and collaborates with health care providers)
- Childhood immunizations
- Adult vaccinations
- Blood pressure screenings
- Women, Infant, Children (WIC)
- Maternal/Child Health (promotes the health of mothers and infants by providing or assuring access to prenatal and postpartum care for low-income women)
- Perfect Beginnings (home visit program for new parents and babies that offers weight checks of the baby, nutrition and breastfeeding education, and more)
- Waiver/Supported Community Living (SCL) (services assist individuals and agencies in obtaining appropriate waiver services from Community Health. SCL job coaches provide direct services to consumers)
- Family Planning
- Flu clinics
- School health (providing school nursing services to New Sharon schools, and auditing immunization records for all area schools, preschools, and daycares)
- Community education (includes CPR, first aid, infection control, head-lice checks, breast exams, bio-emergency preparedness, blood pressure and blood sugar testing, and more)
- CPR training
- Meals on Wheels (provides home delivered lunch meals seven days a week. The cost is $4.50 per meal)
- Parent Education
- Communicable Disease Prevention and Surveillance (involves an immunization program and tracking and monitoring trends and patterns of disease and control of those disease findings in the community)