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    The primary roles of a community health nurse are to provide treatment to patients, offer education to community members about health, and plan educational activities. Management functions for community health nurses include planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, controlling, and evaluating care. Community health nursing combines nursing practice with public health to promote and protect the health of populations.

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    The primary roles of a community health nurse are to provide treatment to patients, offer education to community members about health, and plan educational activities. Management functions for community health nurses include planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, controlling, and evaluating care. Community health nursing combines nursing practice with public health to promote and protect the health of populations.

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    Management functions of Community Health Nurse

    NCM 107/ NCM 148 Related Learning Experience


    Topic Outline
    1. Definition
    2. Importance
    3. Principles and Concepts

    Learning Objectives
    After studying this unit, you will be able to:
    - Recognize the vital roles of community health nurse in organizing activities.
    - Describe the functions of Community health nurse.

    Introduction

    In the past, caregivers journeyed on horseback to the homes of their neighbors to


    provide medical services. These caregivers were crucial to reducing the mortality rates in their
    communities. After the civil war, hospitals were built. This began the implementation of
    organized healthcare. Today, nurses practice in a variety of settings and community health is
    again re-emerging as an integral part of providing care to everyone.

    Community health nursing is a discipline that incorporates evidenced-based research


    along with advances in science and new approaches for improving the health The practice takes
    into consideration the cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds of the people in the community
    to ensure appropriate interaction and sensitivity when working with them.

    Role of a Community Health Nurse


    The primary role of community health nurses is to provide treatment to patients. Additionally,
    community health nurses offer education to community members about maintaining their health so that they
    can decrease the occurrence of diseases and deaths. They plan educational assemblies, hand -out fliers,
    conduct health screenings, dispense medications and administer immunizations.

    Nurses also may distribute health-related items like condoms and pregnancy tests. Examples of some health
    issues that community health nurses try to control or eliminate are:

     Infectious and sexually transmitted diseases


     Obesity
     Poor nutrition
     Substance abuse
     Smoking
     Teen pregnancy

    All information contained in this module are property of UCU and provided solely for educational purposes. Reproduction, storing in a retrieval system, distributing, uploading or posting online, or
    transmitting in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise of any part of this document, without the prior written permission of UCU, is strictly prohibited.
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    Management functions of Community Health Nurse

    1. Planning

    - Includes in assisting the organization in establishing a vision for the future


    - Deciding that what must be done and what organization wants to achieve.

    NCM 107/ NCM 148 Related Learning Experience


    2. Organizing

    - Helps to determine how the manager implements planning to achieve the stated goals

    3. Directing

    - Includes conveying to the worker that has occurred in the planning and organizing phases.

    4. Coordinating

    - Linking people on the health care team together to function in such a way that objectives
    are achieved.

    5. Controlling

    - Process that measures and corrects the activities of the people and establishes standards
    so that objectives are met.

    6. Evaluating

    - Involves upon actions to determine their effectiveness in order to make decisions


    regarding future action.

    - Documenting the progress by comparing achievements against a performance standard

    Activating Prior Knowledge


    Answer the quiz by clicking the link :
    https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=nursing-assessment

    Interactive Link

    View this by clicking the link to learn more about Community health nursing and organizing
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZokH0AS4JSs

    All information contained in this module are property of UCU and provided solely for educational purposes. Reproduction, storing in a retrieval system, distributing, uploading or posting online, or
    transmitting in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise of any part of this document, without the prior written permission of UCU, is strictly prohibited.
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    Summary

    Community health Nursing is the synthesis of nursing and public health practice applied

    NCM 107/ NCM 148 Related Learning Experience


    to promote and protect the health of population. It combines all the basic elements of
    professional, clinical nursing with public health and community practice. Community health
    nursing is essential particularly at this point in time because it maximizes the health status of
    individuals, families, groups and the community through direct approach with them. Today
    community participation and involvement is getting a due attention before the occurrence of
    illnesses as life-style changes to continue to play a significant role in morbidity and mortality.
    Chronis illnesses, tobacco smoking, road traffic accident (RTA) …etc, and environmental changes
    that affect health are steadily becoming the major concerns influencing human health in our
    country. As nurses of 21st century we have duties and responsibilities to keep a dynamic balance
    with the ever changing needs of the health of our society. To maintain abreast with this societal
    needs we professional nurses must understand concepts and models of the community health
    nursing, the importance of health promotion and disease prevention and health care planning, ii
    implementation and evaluation of health care efforts for the advantage of the community.

    Readings and References

    Prioritization , Delegation , and Assignment Practice Exercise for the Nlex Examination by Linda A. LaCharity
    , Candice K. Kumagai and Barbara Bartz 4th Edition

    E-Book Leadership roles and Management functions in Nursing (Theory and Application) 9 th Edition by Bessie
    L.Marquis and Carol J. Huston printed by Wolters Kluwer

    Community /Public Health Nursing (Promoting the health of populations) 7 th Edition Mary A. Nies and
    Melanie McEwen printed by Elsevier

    All information contained in this module are property of UCU and provided solely for educational purposes. Reproduction, storing in a retrieval system, distributing, uploading or posting online, or
    transmitting in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise of any part of this document, without the prior written permission of UCU, is strictly prohibited.
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