Community Health Nursing (complete)

1. COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING: AN OVERVIEW What is a community?

= �??a group of people with common characteristics or interests living
together within a territory
or geographical boundary �??place where people under usual conditions are
found.
2. What is health?
=�??Health-illness continuum �??High-level wellness
=�??Agent-host-environment �??Health belief �??Evolutionary-based
=�??Health promotion �??WHO definition
3. What is community health?
=�??part of paramedical and medical intervention/ approach which is
concerned on the health of the whole population
=�??aims: 1. health promotion 2. disease prevention 3. management of
factors affecting health
4. What is nursing?
- assisting sick individuals to become healthy and healthy individuals
achieve optimum wellness
5. Public Health Nursing:
=the term used before for Community Health Nursing According to Dr. C.E.
Winslow, Public Health is a science & art of 3 P�s
=�??Prevention of Disease
=�? Prolonging life
=�??Promotion of health and efficiency through organized community effort
6. What is Community Health Nursing?
=�The utilization of the nursing process in the different levels of
clientele-individuals,
families, population groups and communities,
concerned with the promotion of health, prevention of disease and
disability and rehabilitation.�
- Maglaya, et al
7. COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING (CHN):
=�?? a specialized field of nursing practice
=�?? a science of Public Health combined with Public Health Nursing Skills
and Social Assistance
with the goal of raising the level of health of the citizenry, to raise
optimum level of functioning
of the citizenry (Characteristic of CHN)
8. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CHN
=�?? The community is the patient in CHN, the family is the unit of care
and there are
four levels of clientele:
individual, family, population group (those who share common
characteristics,
developmental stages and common exposure to health problems � e.g.
children, elderly), and the community.
=�?? In CHN, the client is considered as an ACTIVE partner NOT PASSIVE
recipient of care
9. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CHN �?? CHN practice is affected by developments in health
technology, in particular, changes in society, in general
=�?? The goal of CHN is achieved through multi-sectoral efforts
=�?? CHN is a part of health care system and the larger human services
system.
10. ROLES OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE Clinician,
=who is a health care provider, taking care of the sick people at home
or in the RHU Health Educator, who aims towards health promotion and
illness prevention through
dissemination of correct information; educating people Facilitator, who
establishes
 multi-sectoral linkages by referral system Supervisor, who monitors and
supervises the performance of midwives