MODULE 1: OVERVIEW of COMMUNITY
HEALTH Nursing 2024 NOTES
Roles of public health nurse: - ANS-a.) Planner or Programmer
b.) Provider of Nursing
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c.) Community organizer
d.) Coordinator of services
e.) Trainer or Health Educator
f.) Health Monitor
g.) Role Model
h.) Change Agent
j.) Recorder/ Reporter/ Statistician
k.) Researcher
Planner or Programmer - ANS-Identifies needs, priorities, and problems of
individuals, families, and communities
Planner or Programmer - ANS-Formulates municipal health plan in the
absence of a medical doctor
Planner or Programmer - ANS-Interprets and implements nursing plan,
program policies, memoranda, and circular for the concerned staff personnel
Planner or Programmer - ANS-Provides technical assistance to rural health
midwives in health matters
Provider of Nursing care - ANS-Provides direct nursing care to sick or disabled
in the home, clinic, school, or workplace
Provider of Nursing care - ANS-Develops the family's capability to take care of
the sick, disabled, or dependent member
Community organizer - ANS-Motivates and enhances community
participation in terms of planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating
health services
Community organizer - ANS-Initiates and participates in community
development activities
two major fields of nursing in the Philippines - ANS-a.) community health
nursing
b.) hospital nursing
Community health nursing - ANS-includes public health nursing,
occupational health nursing and school nursing
Community health nursing (Araceli Maglaya) - ANS-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 - ANS-a.) community
b.) health
c.) nursing
community - ANS-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 - ANS-"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) - ANS-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
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