Chapter 1

• it refers to a service rendered by a

  professional nurse with communities, groups, families,

  individuals at home, in health centers, in clinics, in

  schools, in places of work for the promotion of health,

  prevention of illness, care of the sick at home and

  rehabilitation.

  COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

  • (Ruth B. Freeman)
• It is a specialized field of nursing, public health and

  some phases of social assistance that functions as part

  of the total public health program for the promotion of

  health, improvement of the conditions of social and

  physical environment, rehabilitation of illness and

  disability

  WHO
• It is a learned practice discipline with the ultimate goal

  of contributing as individuals and in collaboration with

  others, the promotion of the client’s optimum level of

  functioning thru teaching and delivery of care

  CHN according to Jacobson
• Community health nursing practice promotes and

  preserves the health populations by integrating the

  skills and knowledge relevant to both nursing and

  public health. The practice is comprehensive and

  general and is not limited to a particular age, diagnostic

  group, or episodic care.

  CHN ACCORDING TO AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION

  (ANA)