42. Block and
Josten’s Ethical
Theory of
population
focused
nursing
Derryl Block and Lavohn Josten, public health educators
proposed this based on intersecting fields of public health
and nursing. They have given 3 essential elements of
population focused nursing that stem from these 2 fields:
• An obligation to population.
• The primacy of prevention.
• Centrality of relationship- based care.
The first two are from public health and the third element
from nursing. Hence it implies to nursing that relation-based
care is very important in population focused care.