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    Community health nursing aims to promote and preserve the health of populations. It provides comprehensive health services to entire communities, including disease prevention efforts like immunizations, environmental sanitation, and health education. The scope of community health nursing involves goals of community health services, priority practices, and different practice levels. These include primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention efforts focused on pre-pathogenesis, pathogenesis, and minimizing suffering from disease. The entire community is the focus of community health nursing services in working to achieve the goals of promoting health, restoring impaired health, reducing suffering, and promoting quality living.

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    Community health nursing aims to promote and preserve the health of populations. It provides comprehensive health services to entire communities, including disease prevention efforts like immunizations, environmental sanitation, and health education. The scope of community health nursing involves goals of community health services, priority practices, and different practice levels. These include primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention efforts focused on pre-pathogenesis, pathogenesis, and minimizing suffering from disease. The entire community is the focus of community health nursing services in working to achieve the goals of promoting health, restoring impaired health, reducing suffering, and promoting quality living.

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    Community health nursing aims to promote and preserve the health of populations. It provides comprehensive health services to entire communities, including disease prevention efforts like immunizations, environmental sanitation, and health education. The scope of community health nursing involves goals of community health services, priority practices, and different practice levels. These include primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention efforts focused on pre-pathogenesis, pathogenesis, and minimizing suffering from disease. The entire community is the focus of community health nursing services in working to achieve the goals of promoting health, restoring impaired health, reducing suffering, and promoting quality living.

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    Community health nursing aims to promote and preserve the health of populations. It provides comprehensive health services to entire communities, including disease prevention efforts like immunizations, environmental sanitation, and health education. The scope of community health nursing involves goals of community health services, priority practices, and different practice levels. These include primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention efforts focused on pre-pathogenesis, pathogenesis, and minimizing suffering from disease. The entire community is the focus of community health nursing services in working to achieve the goals of promoting health, restoring impaired health, reducing suffering, and promoting quality living.

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    SCOPE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING PRACTICE

    INTRODUCTION:-

    Community health nursing is a synthesis of nursing practice and public health


    practice applied in promoting and preserving the health of population. The nature of this
    practice is general and comprehensive. It is not limited to a particular age or diagnostic
    groups. it is continuous and not episodic. the dominant responsibility is to the population
    as a whole.

    DEFINITION:-

    Community health nursing is a synthesis of nursing practice and public health


    practice applied in the promoting and preserving the health of population

    SCOPE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING PRACTICE:-

    The scope of community health nursing practice encompasses; the goals and
    aim of community health services, the priority practices and practice levels

     The goals and aim:-


    Community health nursing, which is nursing aspect of organized
    community health practice, is committed to the goals and aims of
    community health. The goals of community health are: to promote and
    preserve health, to restore health when it is impaired, minimize suffering
    and distress and to promote quality living. These goals can be achieved
    by providing compr ehensive health and nursing services as mentioned
    above to the entired community and by working with individuals, families
    and groups in the community with an aim of self care.
     The priority practices:-
    The community health priority practices are based on the concepts of level
    of prevention in relation to natural history of disease as put forth by leavell
    and Clark. This level of prevention includes primary level prevention,
    secondary level prevention and tertiary level prevention. The primary level
    prevention is in the prepathogenesis phase of disease or health problems
    and includes all those measures which promote general health and well
    being of people and protect them for specific disease and health problems
    e.g. healthful living, environmental sanitation, wholesome diet,
    immunization and control of air pollution. The secondary and tertiary level
    prevention are in the pathogenesis phase of a disease. Secondary level
    prevention includes all those measures which help in arresting the disease
    process, restore health and further spread of disease e.g. early diagnosis
    and treatment, health education, immunization of population at risk, safe
    disposal and disinfection of infected excrement, infected equipment and
    supplies. The tertiary level of prevention include all those measure which
    help in in minimizing suffering, reducing or limiting the impairment and
    disabilities and promoting adjustment to disabilities and promoting
    adjustment to disabilitiese.g. medical rehabilitation, vocational
    rehabilitation.
     The focus and practice level:-
    Community health nursing which is nursing aspect of organized
    community health practice is committed to the goals of community health
    i.e. to promote and preserve health. To restore health when impaired, to
    minimized discomfort and to promote and to promote quality skills. It
    helps in achieving these goals by providing comprehensive health and
    nursing care services to the entire community. Thus community is focus of
    community health nursing services.

    CONCLUSION:-

    Community health nursing synthesizes the body of knowledge from public health
    science and professional nursing theories for the purpose of improving the health of
    entire community. The goal lies at the heart of primary prevention and health promotion
    and is the foundation for public health nursing practice.

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