Community-Health-Nursing

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING  Person who mobilize:
Individual
REVIEWER Family Sick or Well
CO-PAR Community
 Community Organizing – Participatory To come together in unity and
Action Research collectively address given:
Issues
Community Organizing Needs
 Process by which health services, Problem
agencies, and people and of the people * assess by way of
of the community brought together to: research
o Identify/learn their own problem
o Plan activities PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH
o Act on this basis  Is an investigation on problems and
o Evaluate issues of the community by way of
research.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING EMPHASIZE  Representatives of community
 Strengthening the community members participates in the actual research.
capability in:  Local Researcher
o Problem solving skills  Outside Researcher =
And Community Health Nurse
Necessary for self-reliant  Act as researchers themselves, doing
development research of their own problem.
o Decision making skills  The essential element of Participatory
Action Research is participation
Community Organizing process has someone
plays the role of a Community Organizer Participatory Action Research
Objectives:
Roles and Responsibilities of a o To encourage consciousness of
Community Health Nurse the suffering
Manager o To empower people to determine
Guide the cause of their own problem
Advocate o To analyze these problem
Coordinator, Counselor, Change Agent o To develop competence for
Health Care Provider changing their own situation
Nurse Trainer o To act by themselves in
Researcher responding to their own problems
Organizer
Leader Ideal participatory research process
Educator – Primary role, Primary involves the community in all research
responsibilities  promotion of health aspect
and prevention of illness 1. Identification of research problem
Supervisor 2. Formulation of research design
3. Data gathering
Community Organizer 4. Validation of research

, 5. Data presentation determine
6. Recommendations general
7. Action of activities health status
o Malnutrition
COPAR Phase/Process rate
According to (Sister Jimenez) o Lack of
health
PRE ENTRY PHASE facility/health
 At the NGO level care
o Formulation of institutional goals, providers
objectives and targets for the  Counter-part of the
program community
o Revision of curriculum (support,
o Training of faculty if CO-PAR commitment,
o Coordinate participation of other resources)
departments within the institution  Accessible to
transport and
 At the community level communication
o Community o Site selection
consultations/dialogues o Preliminary Social Investigation
o Setting of issues related to site (PSI)
selection  Identify contact person
o Development of criteria for site  Gather “overview” of the
selection demographic
Criteria in selecting characteristics, health
community services and facilities of
 Site must be the community
Depressed and o Networking with LGU’s, NGO’s
underserved and other departments
Oppressed
Poor ENTRY PHASE
Exploited  Integration with the community  main
Struggling objective: Gain Trust
 Area must not have First task  courtesy call to the Brgy.
a serious peace Captain
and order problem Establish rapport
 Willingness to be * house calls
organized * joining to social activities
 Community needing
health assistance Imbibe their lifestyle
o Check vital
health Immerse yourself
statistic 
can Live with them