Community Health Nursing

Community Health Nursing • Community Health Nursing is “the utilization of the nursing process in the different levels of clientele-individual, families, population groups and communities… promotion of health, prevention of disease and disability, and rehabilitation” - Dr. Araceli Maglaya, et. al. • FOCUS: Promotion and Preservation of the health of populations • NATURE OF PRACTICE: comprehensive, general, continual and not episodic • KNOWLEDGE BASE: from Nursing and public health • LEVELS OF CLIENTELE: individuals, family, population groups and community as a whole • COMMUNITY - A group of people sharing common geographic boundaries and common values and interests. • HEALTH- state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity • WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - Optimum level of individuals, families and communities • MODERN CONCEPT OF HEALTH - This factor pertains to the power and authority to regulate the environment