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Community-Based Nursing Practice
Introduction
Community-based care focuses on three main elements:
a) Health promotion
b) Disease prevention
c) Restorative care
Patients move quickly from acute care settings. Hence, there is a growing need to
organize healthcare delivery services where people live, work, socialize, and learn
(Swaidek, 2009). One way to achieve this goal is through a community-based
health care model.
Community-based healthcare is a collaborative, evidence-based model designed to
meet the healthcare needs of a community. A healthy community includes
elements that maintain a high quality of life and productivity. For Example, safety
and access to healthcare services are elements that enable people to function
productively in their community (U.S Department of Health and Human Services).
As community healthcare partnerships develop nurses are in a strategic position to
play an important role in healthcare delivery and improve the health of the
community. The focus of health promotion and disease prevention continues to be
essential for the practice of professional nursing. Within community health settings
nurses assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the types of public and
community health services needed.
Community-Based Healthcare
Community-based health-care as a model of care that reaches everyone in the
community, it focuses on primary rather than institutional or acute care and
provides knowledge about health and health promotion, and models of care to the
community. It occurs mainly in primary healthcare centers outside traditional
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healthcare institutions such as hospitals. It provides services to individuals and
families within the community for acute and chronic conditions (Stanhope and
Lancaster, 2010).
Today the challenges in community-based health are numerous. Social lifestyles,
political policy, and economics all influence public health problems and
subsequent healthcare services.
Public health problems include:
● Increase in homeless and immigration population
● Increase in sexually transmitted infections
● Under immunization of infants and children
● Patients with chronic illnesses and life-threatening diseases
Community Health Nursing
Community health nursing is a nursing practice in the community with primary
focus on the healthcare of individuals, families, and groups in the community. Its
goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health.
Perserve Protect
Health Health
Promote Maintain
Health Health
The goal of community health nursing
Fundamentals of Nursing Practice
Community-Based Nursing Practice
Introduction
Community-based care focuses on three main elements:
a) Health promotion
b) Disease prevention
c) Restorative care
Patients move quickly from acute care settings. Hence, there is a growing need to
organize healthcare delivery services where people live, work, socialize, and learn
(Swaidek, 2009). One way to achieve this goal is through a community-based
health care model.
Community-based healthcare is a collaborative, evidence-based model designed to
meet the healthcare needs of a community. A healthy community includes
elements that maintain a high quality of life and productivity. For Example, safety
and access to healthcare services are elements that enable people to function
productively in their community (U.S Department of Health and Human Services).
As community healthcare partnerships develop nurses are in a strategic position to
play an important role in healthcare delivery and improve the health of the
community. The focus of health promotion and disease prevention continues to be
essential for the practice of professional nursing. Within community health settings
nurses assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the types of public and
community health services needed.
Community-Based Healthcare
Community-based health-care as a model of care that reaches everyone in the
community, it focuses on primary rather than institutional or acute care and
provides knowledge about health and health promotion, and models of care to the
community. It occurs mainly in primary healthcare centers outside traditional
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healthcare institutions such as hospitals. It provides services to individuals and
families within the community for acute and chronic conditions (Stanhope and
Lancaster, 2010).
Today the challenges in community-based health are numerous. Social lifestyles,
political policy, and economics all influence public health problems and
subsequent healthcare services.
Public health problems include:
● Increase in homeless and immigration population
● Increase in sexually transmitted infections
● Under immunization of infants and children
● Patients with chronic illnesses and life-threatening diseases
Community Health Nursing
Community health nursing is a nursing practice in the community with primary
focus on the healthcare of individuals, families, and groups in the community. Its
goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health.
Perserve Protect
Health Health
Promote Maintain
Health Health
The goal of community health nursing
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