Roles and

Responsibilities of a
Community Health
Nurse
Roles and Functions of the Public
Health Nurse

• 1. Management function
• 2. Supervisory function
• 3. Care provider "Clinician role”
• 4. Nursing care function
• 5. Family Assessment
• 6. Collaborating and coordinating function
• 7. Health promotion and education function
• 8. Training function
• 9. Research Function
• Management function:
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
• Supervisory function:
Supervisor of midwives and other auxiliary
health workers
Formulates a supervisory plan and conducts
supervisory visits to implement the plan
Conducts supervisory visits using a
supervisory checklist
• Care provider "Clinician role”:

• The most familiar role of the community health

nurse is that of clinician or care provider;

Means that the nurse ensures that health services

are provided not just to individuals and families,
but also to groups and populations.
• Nursing care function:
• Based on the science and art of caring
• Uses knowledge and skill in the nursing process
• Establishes rapport with the client to ensure
good quality data and to facilitate or enhance
partnership in addressing identified health needs
and problems
• Home visit is a must activity for a PHN
Family assessment:

•An essential first function in public health

• The community health nurse must gather
and analyze information that will affect the
health of the people
Collaborating and coordinating
function:
• Establishes linkages and collaborative
relationships with other health professionals,
government agencies, the private sector, non-
government
•organizations, and people’s organizations to
address health problems
Health promotion and education function:
• Uses skills in advocacy for the creation of
supportive environment through
•policies and reengineering of the physical
environment for healthier actions
• Provides clients with information that allows
them to make healthier choices and
practices
• Training function:
• Initiates the formulation of staff development
and training programs for midwives and other
auxiliary workers
• Does training needs assessment, designs
training program and conducts them in
collaboration with other resource persons,
and evaluates training outcomes
• Research function:
• Disease surveillance is a research activity of a
nurse
• Surveillance is an integral part of many
programs
• Data collected can be used to improve
strategies and thus prevent these
• diseases from occurring
Assignment to Do: Explain :
1. Philosophy of Community Health Nursing is based on the
worth and dignity of man.
2. Based on the goals of CHN, ―To raise the level of health of
the citizenry‖, formulate
your objectives to be able to achieve this goal as a community
health nurse in the future.
3. Think of a scenario where you can practice the roles and
functions of community
health nurse. Elaborate your answer.
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