, S365) This means that the role of the nurse as a direct line of contact to members of the community must be seen as a way to make actionable what at this juncture is empty policy. Community nurses should fulfill the role of medical consultant concerning treatment of the condition while regarding all cases as indicative of wider community patterns. This can be a crucial line of information to governments attempting to curb viral spreading. This speaks to a second influence shaping the role of the community nurse, who must be an educator on the subjects both of the pandemic and of the true risks associated with the contraction of such viruses. This means that the nurse will use his or her discretion in order to evaluate those who are most in need of anti-viral drug treatment such as the young or the elderly. Uncertainties over the effectiveness of such drug treatment programs and various misconceptions among the public influence the role of the nurse as a diviner for that which is true and that which...

Thus, outreach plans directed toward aspects of the community which by virtue of ethnicity or socioeconomic status are otherwise isolated from treatment opportunities, which expand upon the aforementioned role of nurses as agents of public health.
These roles denote most essentially that the need to incorporate community-level action with a broad and otherwise impotent preparedness plan must be carried out through the observation, education and treatment distribution made possible by community nursing.

Works Cited:

Marshall, H.; Ryan, P.; Roberton, D.; Street, J. & Watson, M. (2009). Pandemic Influenza and Community Preparedness. American Journal of Public Health, 99(S2).