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Services offered
and delivered by the TB Educators:
• Provide
education to Chief and Councils, Health Directors, Community
Health Nurses,
Community Health Representatives, Community members, cases and
their contacts and
other Health Care Workers;
• Educate and
support hospitalized TB patients;
• Maintain TB
resource library with education material available to all First
Nations communities
in the SL Zone;
• Provide
community education using community radio/TV, local newsletter,
school programs,
and community workshops;
• Assist TB
nurse(s) during community visits with screening, and follow-up
activities;
• Assist
frontline workers in communities with medication compliance,
heavy work loads related
to outbreak, investigation and/or treatment, conduct home visits as
required;
• Witness
Directly observed Therapy (DOT) for clients as required;
• Work with
community-based, on and off community health staff;
• Incorporate
community feedback into future community-based programs and
initiatives;
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