3. Types of community
health nursing
approaches
Community health nurses use
various approaches to provide
care in the community some of
them are
1.Epidemiological approach
2.Problem solving approach
3.Evidence based approach
4. Epidemiological
approach
the Greek physician hypocrites
father of epidemiology the first
person to have examine the
relationship between the
occurrence disease and
environmental influence
epidemiology.Epi means among,
demos means people and legos
5. Definition
the study of the distribution and
determinants of health related
States or events in specified
population and the application of
the study to control of health
programme.According to j.M LAST
1988.
7. 1.Related to health events
-what is the events? ( The problem
)
-what is its magnitude?
-what did it happen?
-what are affected?
-why did it happen?
8. 2. Health actions
-what can be done to reduce this
problem and its consequences?
-how can it be prevented in the
future?What action should be
taken by the community? by the
health services? By other section?
Where and for whom this activity
is bi carried out?
9. Making comparisons
this approach is to make
comparisons and draw inference.
-this may be comparison of two (or
more group) one group having the
disease (or not exposed to risk
factor) for comparison between
individuals.
10. Problem solving
approach
Definition
a systematic approach to defining
the problem and creating a vast
number of possible solutions without
judging this solutionproblem solving
is a cognitive processing directed at
achieving a goal where no solution
method is obvious to the problem
solver.
11. Types of problem solving
approach
1. Persuasive approach
2. Enforcement approach
3. Team approach
4. Community involvement approach
5. Intersectoral approach
13. Evidence based practice.
it is a systemic interconnecting of
scientifically generated evidence
with the takat knowledge of the
expert practitioners to achieve a
change in a particular practice for
the benefit of a well defined
client/patient group.
14. Need for evidence based practice
For making sure that each client
get the best possible services
Update knowledge and is essential
for lifelong learning
Provide clinical judgement
Improvement care provided and
save life.
15. Goal of evidence based practice
provide practicing nurse the
evidence based data to deliver
effective care.
Resolve problem in clinical setting.
Achieve excellence in care
delivery.
reduce the variation in nursing
care and assist with efficient and
16. Advantages of evidence based
practice
Provide better information to
practitioner’s
Enable consistency of care
Better patient outcomeProvide client
focus care
Structured process
Increased confidence and decision
17. disadvantages of evidence based
practice
Not enough evidence for evidence
based practice
Time consuming
Reduce client choice
Reduce professional judgement
Suppress creativityInfluence legal
proceeding
18. Conclusion
Today we learn about Community Health
Nursing Approach in which we learn
different types of Community Health
Nursing Approach which are
epidemiological approach, problem
solving approach and evidence based
practice approach and we also learn
different types of problem solving
approach.
19. Bibliography
Books
Community health nursing ( author- k k gulani,
3rd edition)
Community health nursing 2nd (author- r p
saxena, 3rd edition)
Community health nursing (author- bijay
Lakshmi dash)
Internet
www.scribd.com (community health nursing
approaches)
