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    A.Chn As A Field of Nursing Practice

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    Community health nursing is a blend of nursing practice and public health that uses primary health care to promote health and prevent illness. The goal is to help clients achieve their optimal level of functioning through education and care delivery. Community health nursing also aims to organize health benefits so all citizens can access health and longevity. It encompasses areas like public health nursing, school nursing, and home health. Public health involves legislated and tax-supported efforts through health departments and agencies to improve health through health promotion, disease prevention and protecting communities. The core public health functions are assessment, policy development, and assurance of necessary health services. Community health extends public health to include organized community efforts by government agencies and private organizations.

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    Community health nursing is a blend of nursing practice and public health that uses primary health care to promote health and prevent illness. The goal is to help clients achieve their optimal level of functioning through education and care delivery. Community health nursing also aims to organize health benefits so all citizens can access health and longevity. It encompasses areas like public health nursing, school nursing, and home health. Public health involves legislated and tax-supported efforts through health departments and agencies to improve health through health promotion, disease prevention and protecting communities. The core public health functions are assessment, policy development, and assurance of necessary health services. Community health extends public health to include organized community efforts by government agencies and private organizations.

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    Community health nursing is a blend of nursing practice and public health that uses primary health care to promote health and prevent illness. The goal is to help clients achieve their optimal level of functioning through education and care delivery. Community health nursing also aims to organize health benefits so all citizens can access health and longevity. It encompasses areas like public health nursing, school nursing, and home health. Public health involves legislated and tax-supported efforts through health departments and agencies to improve health through health promotion, disease prevention and protecting communities. The core public health functions are assessment, policy development, and assurance of necessary health services. Community health extends public health to include organized community efforts by government agencies and private organizations.

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    OVERVIEW OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

    organizing these benefits as to enable


    A.CHN AS A FIELD OF NURSING every citizen to realize his birth right of
    PRACTICE health and longevity.
    CHN is described as:
     Afield of nursing that is blend or synthesis of  Public health connotes organized,
    nursing practice with public health using legislated and tax-supported efforts that
    primary health care as the tool in the delivery serve all people through health
    of health services department and governmental agencies.
     A learned practice discipline with the ultimate  Purpose: improve the health of the public
    goal of contributing as individuals and in by:
    collaboration with others to the promotion of o promoting healthy lifestyles
    the client’s optimum level of functioning thru o preventing disease and injury,
    teaching and delivery of care (Jacobson,1969) and
     A service rendered by a professional nurse to o protecting the health of
    individuals, families, communities and communities.
    population groups in health centers, clinics,
    schools, and the workplace in order to promote Core Public Health Functions
    health, prevent illness, provide care for the
    sick at their respective homes, provide Assessment:
    effective rehabilitation (Freeman,1970) - regular collection, analysis and information
     CHN – (ANA,1980) “A synthesis of nursing sharing about health conditions, risks, and
    practice and public health practice applied to resources in the community.
    promoting and preserving the health of the
    populations” Policy development:
     CHN is considered to be a broader and more - use of information gathered during
    general specialty area that encompasses assessment to develop local and health
    subspecialties that include public health policies and to direct resources toward
    nursing, school nursing, and other developing those policies
    fields of practice, such as home health,
    hospice care, and independent nurse practice Assurance:
    - Focuses on the availability of necessary
    Definition and Focus of Public Health and health services throughout the community.
    Community Health Includes maintaining the ability of both
    public health agencies and private
     Winslow –known classic definition of Public providers to manage day-to-day operations
    health and having the capacity to respond to
    “Public health is the science and art of: critical situations and emergencies.
    1. Preventing disease Community Health
    2. Prolonging life
    - Extends the realm of public health to
    3. Promoting health and efficiency through include organized health efforts of the
    organized community effort for: community level through the government
           1. Sanitation of the environment  and private efforts.
    2. control of communicable infections - Participants include privately funded
    agencies (Phil. Cancer Society or the Phil.
    3. Education of the individual in personal
    Red Cross)
    hygiene
    4. Organizations of medical and nursing
    services for the early diagnosis and
    preventive treatment of disease.
    5.Development of social machinery to
    ensure everyone a standard of living
    adequate for the maintenance of health, so

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