NURS 3036 Week One
1.What is a community?: May be defined as people and the relationships
that emerge among them as they develop and commonly share
agencies, institutions or a physical environment
Members may be defined in terms of geography or a group who shares a
common interest or focus (children attending school, CDL)
2.Community Health Nursing: Focusing on health care of the individual
clients in the community
Community health nursing is its shift into some non traditional specialtie
such as primary health care (a comprehensive way to address issues of
social justice)
3.What Jobs Fall Under CHN?: Public Health
Nursing Home health nursing
Occupational health
nursing Parish Nursing
Primary Health Nursing
Outpost Nursing
4.CHN: Provide, protect & Promote, protect & preserve health, prevent
disease and injury ---> Example: Mass Vaccination Clinics
5.CHN: Promote, protect & preserve the environment that contributes to
health --> Example: PHN Working on plastics prevention and advocacy
work for the environment
6.CHN: Advocate for healthy public policy --> Example: Smoking
Cessation Programs
7.CHN: Lead in the integration of comprehensive & multiple health
promotion approaches that build the capacity of client --> Example: : Sucide
prevention team, that works with other organizations)
8.CHN:Respect the diversity of clients & caregivers, focus on the linkages
be- tween health & illness experiences & enable clients to achieve health:
(Normal Nursing)
9.CHN: Provide evidence informed care in a variety of settings such as the
client's home, school, office, clinics, on the street, communal living
settings or workplace: Offer supports to community resources
10.CHN: Cooperate, coordinate & collaborate with a variety of partners,
disci- plines, & sectors: Vaccine Clinics
11.CHN: Engage a range of resources to support health by coordinating
care, & planning services, & programs: HBHC, Discharge nurses, Food
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1.What is a community?: May be defined as people and the relationships
that emerge among them as they develop and commonly share
agencies, institutions or a physical environment
Members may be defined in terms of geography or a group who shares a
common interest or focus (children attending school, CDL)
2.Community Health Nursing: Focusing on health care of the individual
clients in the community
Community health nursing is its shift into some non traditional specialtie
such as primary health care (a comprehensive way to address issues of
social justice)
3.What Jobs Fall Under CHN?: Public Health
Nursing Home health nursing
Occupational health
nursing Parish Nursing
Primary Health Nursing
Outpost Nursing
4.CHN: Provide, protect & Promote, protect & preserve health, prevent
disease and injury ---> Example: Mass Vaccination Clinics
5.CHN: Promote, protect & preserve the environment that contributes to
health --> Example: PHN Working on plastics prevention and advocacy
work for the environment
6.CHN: Advocate for healthy public policy --> Example: Smoking
Cessation Programs
7.CHN: Lead in the integration of comprehensive & multiple health
promotion approaches that build the capacity of client --> Example: : Sucide
prevention team, that works with other organizations)
8.CHN:Respect the diversity of clients & caregivers, focus on the linkages
be- tween health & illness experiences & enable clients to achieve health:
(Normal Nursing)
9.CHN: Provide evidence informed care in a variety of settings such as the
client's home, school, office, clinics, on the street, communal living
settings or workplace: Offer supports to community resources
10.CHN: Cooperate, coordinate & collaborate with a variety of partners,
disci- plines, & sectors: Vaccine Clinics
11.CHN: Engage a range of resources to support health by coordinating
care, & planning services, & programs: HBHC, Discharge nurses, Food
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