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    Community health nursing involves nursing practice outside of hospitals to promote and preserve population health. It draws from both nursing and public health. Community health nursing focuses on assessing community health needs, planning and implementing health services, and evaluating their impact on population groups. It emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention over curative interventions. Tools used to measure community health problems include demography, vital statistics, epidemiology, and applying principles of management.

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    Community health nursing involves nursing practice outside of hospitals to promote and preserve population health. It draws from both nursing and public health. Community health nursing focuses on assessing community health needs, planning and implementing health services, and evaluating their impact on population groups. It emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention over curative interventions. Tools used to measure community health problems include demography, vital statistics, epidemiology, and applying principles of management.

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    07/04/13

    COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING


    Is nursing practice outside the hospital promotes and preserves the health of
    populations by integrating the skills and knowledge relevant to both nursing and public
    health.
    PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
    Refers to the practice of nursing in rational and local government health departments
    (which includes health centers and rural health units), and public schools. It is community
    health nursing in the public sector.
    FRAMEWORK FOR CHN
    CHN is the totality of its philosophy, beliefs, principles and processes.
    CHN is influenced by its immediate context the health care delivery system and the
    overall economic, political, socio-cultural and environmental factors
    The primary goal of CHN is the promotion and preservation of health of its different
    clients/individual, the family, population group and community
    HIGHLIGHTS OF CHN
    The knowledge base comes from nursing and public health.
    Different levels of clientele individual, family, group of people, community
    The practitioners recognition of the primacy of the population as a whole
    Recognition of the impact of different factors on health
    Nurses greater awareness of their clients life and situations.
    It has a broader perspective than institutional or hospital nursing
    CHN CONCEPTS/THEORY
    Emphasis on the importance of the greatest good for the greatest number
    Assessing health needs, planning, implementing and evaluation the input of health
    services on population groups
    Priority of health promotive and disease-preventive strategies over curative interventions.
    TOOLS FOR MEASURING COMMUNITY HEALTH PROBLEMS
    Demography
    o Through census-official and periodic enumeration of population
    o Characteristics of the population age, sex, occupation, education level
    o Population size number of people
    o Composition
    o Distribution
    Vital Statistics
    o Fertility Rates
    o Mortality Rates
    Infant mortality rate
    Maternal mortality rate
    Specific cruse death rate
    Cause of death rate
    o Morbidity Rates
    Epidemiology
    o The study of occurrence and distribution of health conditions such as disease,
    death, deformities or disabilities
    Application of Principles of Management

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