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The document discusses community health nursing and its key characteristics. Community health nursing combines public health science with nursing to improve health at the community level. It focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, and addressing environmental and social factors that influence health. The roles of community health nursing include assessment, health education, and evaluating programs to promote population health.

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CHN Lec

The document discusses community health nursing and its key characteristics. Community health nursing combines public health science with nursing to improve health at the community level. It focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, and addressing environmental and social factors that influence health. The roles of community health nursing include assessment, health education, and evaluating programs to promote population health.

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CHN LEC

Community BOARD OF HEALTH

Church BUREAU OF HEALTH – DEPARTMENT OF


INTERIOR
School
PHILIPPINE HEALTH SERVICE – DIRECTOR OF
Organization HEALTH

Functions of Community: Settings in Community Health Nursing


 Identify  Home
 Values  School
 Norms  Occupational
 Communication  Home Care
 Common Interest  Community

Health – WHO (World Health Organization)

 State or complete physical, mental,


social wellbeing of an individual.

Continuum

 Optimal of health
 Healthy to being unhealthy.

3 types of Community

1. Geographic Communities
 Boundaries
 City, municipalities, and
province
 Clear target or analysis of
health cares.

2. Common Interact
 Ex: Church

3. Community of Solution
 Creates a possible solution for
problem
CHN LEC WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
1. Promotion of health
1. It is a field of nursing
2. Prevention of diseases
2 characteristics under field of nursing:
3.
1. Specialized knowledge and
4. Rehabilitation - (drugs, alcohol, smoking) skills
some addictive habits
2. Photos of particular set of
5. Evaluation - is the process by which one people (Target population)
practice is analyzed, judged, and improved
according to established goals and standards. WHAT IS COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING?

6. Research - is a systematic investigation to - As a field of nursing combines nursing science


discover facts affecting community health and with public health science the formulate of
community health practice, solve problems, and community base and population focus practice.
explore improve methods of health service. - Synthesizes the knowledge from the public
• Epidemiology - the study of health health sciences and professional nursing
and disease determinants and distributions in theorist to improve the health of communists
population. and vulnerable populations.

• Biostatistics - The science of - During the first 70 years of the 20th century
statistically measuring population community health nursing was also known as
health conditions is the primary public Public Health Nursing.
health measurement and the analytic
sciences underlying community health 2 CHARACTERISTICS OF CHN
practice.
- Combines public health with nursing

FUNCTIONS:
THERE ARE 8 ELEMENTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH:
- Investigates the characteristics and patterns of
illness and health. • History and philosophy of public health-
emphasis on the greatest good and greatest
- Explore ways to improve healthcare number
- Also examine the impact of social and • Concept of aggregates- assessing needs,
environmental factors on health and health planning, providing services, and evaluating
services provision. services.
- Ex. Mother & Infant • Priority of preventive, protective, and health
Cause and effect of smoking on mother and promoting strategies over purative strategies
infant. • Means for measurement and analysis of
community health problems, including
epidemiology, concepts and biostatistics.
• Influence of environmental factors on 5. It promotes client responsibility and self-care
aggregate health.
• Self-care - is the process of taking
• Principles underlying management and responsibility for developing once own health
organization for community health potential

• Public policy analysis and development Ex. Building safe playground for kids

• Health advocacy and political process • Developing teen

• Providing senior exercise program


- Under it combines public health

3. PPA (Parenting Profile Assessment) 6. It uses aggregate measurement and analysis

• Assess for efficacy and violent family - You need to collect an examine the data before
intervention
• It is population focus

- Is concerned for the health status of


7. It uses principles of organizational theory
population groups or environment
- to provide effective administration of health
- Assessment of relationship
care services.
- Involves a new outlook and set of attitudes
- As a CHN you need to assess the group and
community needs, establish priorities, plan,
4. Emphasizes prevention, health promotion implement and evaluate your services using
and wellness public health management and organizational
principles.
Ex.
Ex. You go to community in the urban area you
• Mother and infant services will see people, they know how to use the
• Prevention of environmental pollution internet, they can communicate using social
media platforms, Facebook, Messenger, IG etc.
• School health programs

• Workers right 8. It involves interprofessional collaboration


• Provides immunization • Involves two or more people that has the
• Wide immunization program same professions

• Physical fitness program Ex. Therapist/ healthcare providers in the


rehabilitation.
• Check ups

• Family planning

• Everything that involves pollution

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