The document presents a community health nursing guide focusing on home visiting, defining it as providing nursing care at patients' homes. It outlines the principles, purposes, advantages, and disadvantages of home visits, aiming to improve health within families and communities. The steps of effective home visiting are also detailed, emphasizing the importance of planning, interpersonal relationships, and follow-up evaluations.

2. Community Health Nursing
Presentation by:
Group 07
To:
Ma’am Nagina Kausar

3. Group Members
Wajeeha Waqar
Sana Waqar
Aneela Nasreen
Atooba Jameel
Mahnoor
Irum Sajjad
Insa Karamat
Adeela Zahoor
Rifat Bibi
Shahida Hameed

5. Primary Health Care

6. Objectives
1) Define Home visiting
2) Discuss the principles , purpose ,
advantages and disadvantages of home
visiting in community
3) Describe steps of home visiting

8. Home visiting
Definition:
A home visit is defined as the process of
providing the nursing care to patients at their doorsteps.
It requires technical skills, resourcefulness, judgment,
relationship.
It is defined providing the services to family at their door
stepts to maintain the health and to reduce the
mortality & morbidity in family.
It consider back bone of community health services.

9. Principles of home visiting
• The home visit should have a purpose and objective.
• The home visit should be planned according to
priority.
• The purpose of home visit should be clear, regular,
and flexible according to the needs of the family.
• Should be educated.
• First of all introduce yourself, your institution, your
purpose of a home visit and collects facts about an
individual , family environment.

10. Continue……
• Establish a good interpersonal relationship between
families and be polite, courage, friendly.
• Carefully listen the family and understand the other
person view.
• Should be convenient and acceptable.
• Evaluate your own work periodically.
• Make a note of important facts about the home visit
in your diary and family folder.
• Thank to the family members and individual for good
response.

11. Purposes
• To find out needs of individual, family, and
community in relation to health, socio-economic
and cultural aspects.
• To provide domiciliary midwifery as care for
pregnant, delivery, and puerperal mother and
infant.
• To give care to the sick to a postpartum mother and
her newborn with the view teach a responsible
family member to give subsequant care.

12. Continue…..
• To assess the living condition of the patient and his
family and their health practices in order to provide
the appropriate health teachings.
• To provide basic health services for minor ailment
(i.e. Injury, boils, abrasions) To provide counseling
on family planning, immunization, nutrition.
• To give health teaching regarding the prevention
and control of diseases.

13. Continue…..
• To establish a close relationship between the nurses
and the public for promotion of health.
• To make use of an inter referral system and to
promote the utilization of community.

14. Advantages
• It help to develop an interpersonal relationship between
family and the nurses.
• community health nurse assess the individual and family
member in their own environment.
• It gives an opportunity to observe the background of the
family member and their relationship.
• It helps in the basic understanding of physical and
emotional needs of individual and to guide them.
• It helps to gain more knowledge and become realistic as a
family member are more relaxed in their own surroundings.
• It also give an opportunity to find out new health problems.

15. Disadvantages
• Costs are a major disadvantage.
• The cost of previsit preparation travel to and from
the home, time spend with one client and post visit
preparation is high.
• Man agencies have actively explored alternative
modes of providing service to families, particularly
group interventions.
• Important issue is deformining which families
would benefit the most and how home visit can
most effectively be structured and scheduled.

16. Steps of home visiting
• Fact findings
• Data findings
• Plan action with individual/family
• Action and health education
• Follow up
• Evaluation of services

17. Steps of hand washing
Steps of hand washing

18. PHASES OF HOME VISITING
1) Pre visit phase
2) Initation phase
3) Inhome phase
4) Termination phase
5) Postvisit phase