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- A district nurse provides nursing care to patients during periods of illness/incapacity in non-hospital settings, usually in their own homes, in residential care homes or in health centres.
- Patients may include those who are housebound, the elderly, the terminally ill, the disabled and those who have recently been discharged from hospital.
- A fundamental part of district nursing is promoting healthy lifestyles and health education/teaching.
- District nurses also offer emotional help and advice to patients and their families and teach basic care-giving skills where needed.