MODULE 1: OVERVIEW of COMMUNITY
HEALTH NURSING
two major fields of nursing in the Philippines - Answers -a.) community health nursing
b.) hospital nursing
Community health nursing - Answers -includes public health nursing, occupational
health nursing and school nursing
Community health nursing (Araceli Maglaya) - Answers -The utilization of the nursing
process in the different levels of clientele-individuals, families, population groups and
communities, concerned with the promotion of health, prevention of disease and
disability and rehabilitation.
three broad concept of community health nursing - Answers -a.) community
b.) health
c.) nursing
community - Answers -defines as a group of people with common characteristics or
interests living together within a territory or geographical boundaries within a specific
social system
Goal of community health nursing - Answers -"To raise the level of citizenry by helping
communities and families to cope with the discontinuities in and threats to health in such
a way as to maximize their potential for high-level wellness
community health nursing (WHO Expert Committee of Nursing) - Answers -Special field
of nursing that combines the skills of nursing, public health and some phases of social
assistance and functions as part of the total public health program for the promotion of
health, the improvement of the conditions in the social and physical environment,
rehabilitation of illness and disability
Community Health Nursing (Jacobson) - Answers -learned practice discipline with the
ultimate goal of contributing as individuals and in collaboration with others to the
promotion of the client's optimum level of functioning thru' teaching and delivery of care
Community Health Nursing (Dr. Ruth B. Freeman) - Answers -A service rendered by a
professional nurse to IFCs, population groups in health centers, clinics, schools,
workplace for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, care of the sick at home and
rehabilitation
, Allender and Spradley - Answers -defines community as a social system that includes:
health system, family system, economic system, educational system, religious system,
welfare system, political system, recreational system, legal system and communication
system
Leonard - Answers -defines community as a "webs of people shaped by relationships,
interdependence, mutual interests and patterns of interaction."
CHARACTERISTICS OF Community Health Nursing - Answers -a.) Promotion of health
and prevention of disease are the goals of professional practice
b.) Community health nursing practice is comprehensive, general, continual and not
episodic.
c.) There are different levels of clientele; individuals, families and population groups and
the practitioner recognize the primacy of the population as a whole.
d.) The nurse and the client have greater control in making decisions related to health
care and they collaborate as equals
e.) The nurse recognizes the impact of different factors on health and has a greater
awareness of his/ her client's lives and situations.
PRIMARY FOCUS of Community Health Nursing - Answers -health promotion of the
people wherein the primary responsibility of the community health nurse is health
teaching, who is termed as generalist in practice, because of their potentials to assume
different roles as a community health nurse
health teaching - Answers -generalist in practice
health teaching - Answers -primary responsibility of the community health nurse
generalist in practice - Answers -have potentials to assume different roles as a
community health nurse
community - Answers -object or focus of care in CHN
family - Answers -unit of service
Health - Answers -basic human right
Health - Answers -goal of the health care delivery system
United nation - Answers -affirmed its recognition that the enjoyment of the highest
standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being
enjoyment of the highest standard of health - Answers -one of the fundamental rights of
every human being according to the United Nations
Health - Answers -viewed as a continuum
HEALTH NURSING
two major fields of nursing in the Philippines - Answers -a.) community health nursing
b.) hospital nursing
Community health nursing - Answers -includes public health nursing, occupational
health nursing and school nursing
Community health nursing (Araceli Maglaya) - Answers -The utilization of the nursing
process in the different levels of clientele-individuals, families, population groups and
communities, concerned with the promotion of health, prevention of disease and
disability and rehabilitation.
three broad concept of community health nursing - Answers -a.) community
b.) health
c.) nursing
community - Answers -defines as a group of people with common characteristics or
interests living together within a territory or geographical boundaries within a specific
social system
Goal of community health nursing - Answers -"To raise the level of citizenry by helping
communities and families to cope with the discontinuities in and threats to health in such
a way as to maximize their potential for high-level wellness
community health nursing (WHO Expert Committee of Nursing) - Answers -Special field
of nursing that combines the skills of nursing, public health and some phases of social
assistance and functions as part of the total public health program for the promotion of
health, the improvement of the conditions in the social and physical environment,
rehabilitation of illness and disability
Community Health Nursing (Jacobson) - Answers -learned practice discipline with the
ultimate goal of contributing as individuals and in collaboration with others to the
promotion of the client's optimum level of functioning thru' teaching and delivery of care
Community Health Nursing (Dr. Ruth B. Freeman) - Answers -A service rendered by a
professional nurse to IFCs, population groups in health centers, clinics, schools,
workplace for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, care of the sick at home and
rehabilitation
, Allender and Spradley - Answers -defines community as a social system that includes:
health system, family system, economic system, educational system, religious system,
welfare system, political system, recreational system, legal system and communication
system
Leonard - Answers -defines community as a "webs of people shaped by relationships,
interdependence, mutual interests and patterns of interaction."
CHARACTERISTICS OF Community Health Nursing - Answers -a.) Promotion of health
and prevention of disease are the goals of professional practice
b.) Community health nursing practice is comprehensive, general, continual and not
episodic.
c.) There are different levels of clientele; individuals, families and population groups and
the practitioner recognize the primacy of the population as a whole.
d.) The nurse and the client have greater control in making decisions related to health
care and they collaborate as equals
e.) The nurse recognizes the impact of different factors on health and has a greater
awareness of his/ her client's lives and situations.
PRIMARY FOCUS of Community Health Nursing - Answers -health promotion of the
people wherein the primary responsibility of the community health nurse is health
teaching, who is termed as generalist in practice, because of their potentials to assume
different roles as a community health nurse
health teaching - Answers -generalist in practice
health teaching - Answers -primary responsibility of the community health nurse
generalist in practice - Answers -have potentials to assume different roles as a
community health nurse
community - Answers -object or focus of care in CHN
family - Answers -unit of service
Health - Answers -basic human right
Health - Answers -goal of the health care delivery system
United nation - Answers -affirmed its recognition that the enjoyment of the highest
standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being
enjoyment of the highest standard of health - Answers -one of the fundamental rights of
every human being according to the United Nations
Health - Answers -viewed as a continuum
