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INTRODUCTION
Community health implies in integration of
Preventive, Promotive and Curative aspects of
health services.
concerned with
The nurse most directly
giving health
individuals and families in
education and
the
care to
community
3. DEFINITION
COMMUNITY: It is a social group determined
with geographical boundaries, common values
and interests. It’s members know and interact
with each other. It functions within a particular
structure and exhibits and creates norms, values
and social institutions
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4. HEALTH
Health is a state of complete physical, mental,
social, spiritual wellbeing, and not merely an
absence of disease or infirmity.
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5. NURSING
Nursing is a service which includes care to the sick,
care of the whole patient, the care of patient’s
environment, health education and health services
to the individual family and society for the prevention
of disease and promotion of health.
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6. Functions of communities
Commumity helps in
• Production , Distribution of items .
• Socialization
• Transmission of culture
• Mutual co-operation
• Provision of mutual respect
• Protection & conservation of health,life,property &
resources of individuals
• Transmission of information,ideas & beliefs
7. Characteristics of community
Community has following characteristics;
• Territorial character
• Home instint of special attachment
• Common life
• Feeling of oneness
• Psychological feeling
• Role Feeling
• Dependency feeling
• Spontanous growtg
• Permanance
• Particular name
• Wider ends
• No legal status
10. COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
It is defined as nursing services organized by a
community or agency to carry out nursing aspects
of community health programme in homes,
schools, industries or in the health centers
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11. DEFINITION OF
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
•Community health nursing is a synthesis of
nursing and public health practice applied of
promoting and preserving the health of people.
The practice is general and comprehensive. It is
not limited to a particular age group or diagnosis,
and continuing, not episodic.
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13. Philosophy of community health
nursing
Individuals right
of being healthy
Working together
towards common
goal
Social systems
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14. Aims of community health nursing
• Toimprove quality of life
• Toreduce risk factors
• Toimprove standard of living
• Tostrengthen self care activities of individuals
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15. Objectives
•Toprevent, promote, maintain and restore the
community health
•Toreduce morbidity and mortality rate among
community
• Toincrease the life span for individuals
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PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
NURSING
•Nursing services should be planned according to the
need of the community
•Community nurses should function in collaboration
and coordination with other personnel to achieve
optimum community health.
•Community health nurse should be qualified and are
accountable, responsible and authorized health
authority for her services
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Cont…
• Job condition should be conductive for optimum
satisfaction
• Health services should be based on the felt needs
• All CHNs and supervisors should function as a team
• Professional relationship and etiquette are essential in
community health services
• Health services should be available to all
irrespective of their age, sex and status
• The CHN should never accept money or gifts
people
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Cont…..
• Health service should be realistic in terms of
available personnel & facilities
• Follow up services
• Evaluation of services
• Facilities for further training & continuing education
• Influential people should help in carrying out the
health activities
21. SCOPE OF COMMUNITYHEALTH
NURSING
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• Home care
• Nursing homes
• MCH and family planning
• School health nursing
• Health care services
• Industrial nursing services
• Domiciliary nursing service
• Geriatric nursing service
• Mental health nursing servi
• Rehabilitation centers
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FUNCTIONS OF CHN
•Comprehensive health care to individuals,
families and groups
•Develops goals to meet needs- action
programme, evaluating progress
•Assistance to family in improving environmental
conditions
•Providing safe environment in home, school and
industry
•Providing supportive services to doctor such as
early symptom detection
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Cont….
•Demonstration and teaching of skilled nursing care
of the sick in home
•Supervising the work of dais, midwives
•Helping in the adjustment of social and emotional
conditions that affect health
•Coordination of work with health care
professionals
•Revising and revitalizing plan and programmes
•Epidemiologic investigations in field of
communicable diseases
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Cont…
•Organizing planned group classes in health
•Development and utilization of facilities
•Responsible for planning, implementation &
evaluation of a practical plan of nursing
administration
•Involving in research and collection of vital statistics
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