This document discusses community health practice and the role of community health nurses. It explains that community health involves both promoting health and preventing health problems. Promoting health includes activities like health education, preventive healthcare services, and physical fitness programs. The goals of health promotion are to increase healthy lifespans, reduce health disparities, and provide access to preventive services. Prevention involves primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention efforts at different stages. As for community health nurses, their scope of practice includes promoting health, preventing illness, restoring care, and caring for the dying within settings like schools, homes, mental health facilities, and rehabilitation centers through both art and science.

1. Prepared By
Ameen jihad derweesh
Supervised
prof. Dr. Ameen A Yasir

2. Introduction
Community health practice can best be
understood by examining two basic
components: promotion of health and
prevention of health problems. The levels
of prevention are a key to community
health practice

3. 1. Promotion of Health
Promotion of health is recognized as one of components of
public health and community. Health promotion programs
and activities include:
Health education
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2. Development and management of preventive health care
services
3. Encourage physical fitness programs for all ages.
4. Create public awareness .

4. Purpose for health promotion practice
Health promotion includes all efforts that seek to
move people closer to optimal wellbeing and wellness.
Nursing in particular has a social mandate for
engaging in health promotion

5. Goals of health promotion
1. Increase the span of healthy life for all citizens
2. Reduce health disparities among population groups
3. Achieve access to preventive services for everyone

6. 2. Prevention of Health Problems
Prevention of considered a major part of
community health practice. Prevention means expect
and prevent of problems or discovering . It is
practiced on three levels in community health.

7. A . Primary prevention
Primary prevention or preventive stage, avoid the occurrence of a health
problem through measures taken to prevent illness or injuries from occurring.
Roll of community health nurse practice include:
1. Immunization
2. Health education.
3. Previous planning primary prevention.
4. Prevent communicable diseases.

8. B. Secondary prevention
Secondary prevention or curative stage,
involves efforts to early detection and
treatment of existing health problems at the
earliest possible stage.

9. C. Tertiary prevention
Tertiary prevention or rehabilitative stage, reduce the
severity of a health problem to its lowest possible level.
1. Reduce severity of a health problem.
2.Minimize disability and restore of health.
3. Select appropriate preventive.
4. Modification of healthy lifestyles and healthy
environments

10. Scope of community health nurse of practice
Introduction
The scope of practice for a community health nurse includes
community-building, health promotion, and policy reforms that
promote the health of a population., the responsibilities of a
community health nurse vary depending on where they work and
the needs of their community.

11. Definition of scope
Definition of scope of practice
It is defined (( who, what ,where, when, why,)) through advanced
nursing practice.
Scope of community health nursing
1. School health nursing
2. Domiciliary nursing services
3. Mental health nursing services
4. MCH and family planning
5. Rehabilitation centers
6. Geriatric nursing services

12. Types the of scope major practice
1.promoting health
2.previntion illness
3. restore care including
4.care of the dying

13. science
Promoting health
Optimal health
art
Change Lifestyle

14. Reference
 Lundy, K. S., & Janes, S. (2009). Community health nursing: Caring for the
public's health. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
 Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2013). Community/Public Health Nursing-E-
Book: Promoting the Health of Populations. Elsevier Health Sciences.
 Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2019). Public health nursing e-book:
Population-centered health care in the community. Elsevier Health
Sciences.