Community health nursing involves providing preventative healthcare services to individuals, families, and groups within geographical communities. It aims to promote health and well-being, prevent illness, and restore health through services like home care, school health programs, and supporting individuals' self-care abilities. A community health nurse works as part of a collaborative healthcare team and focuses on addressing the needs of the community through comprehensive care, health education, and developing action plans to evaluate and improve residents' health outcomes.

1. B.Sc. NURSING Semester II
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING-I
UNIT – I-INTRODUCTION OF
CHN
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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

8. Types of Communities

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.

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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16. COMMUNITY HEALTH
Well
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health
system
Establishing
responsibility
towards health
Control of
communicable
and non
communicable
functioning diseases
Education
Safe
environment
COMMUNITY
HEALTH

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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

20. CONCEPT OF COMMUNITYHEALTH
NURSING
Promoting
health and
wellness
Preventing
illness
Restoring
health
Care of dying
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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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QUALITIES OF CHN
• Educational qualification
• Interest
• Understanding in people’s behaviour
• Sincerity
• Empathy
• Friendly
• Charitable
• Resourceful

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Reference
• Dhaar G.M, Robbani.I, (2006)Foundations of community
medicine, (I edition), Elsevier publication, New Delhi.
• Gupta.M.C, Mahajan.B.K,(2003) Book of preventive &
social medicine, III Edition, Jaypee brothers medical
Publishers, New Delhi.
• Park.K,(2011) Text Book of Preventive & Social medicine”,
24th Edition, Banasidas Bhanot Publication, Jalandhar
city.
• Kamalam.S,(2012) ,Essentials in community health
nursing practice (2nd Ed), Jaypee brothers, New Delhi.
• TNAI, A community Health Nursing Manual ,TNAI
publications, New Delhi.
• Ghai .O.P, Piyush, Essentials of Preventive medicine ,
Vikas publishing house pvt ltd, New Delhi.

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MEDICOSE NURSING ACADEMY