Community Health Nursing Fundamentals

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Course Outline

  1. Community Health Nursing & Principles
  2. Nursing Roles & Responsibilities
  3. Health Assessment & Data Collection
  4. Preventive Care & Health Promotion
  5. Community Diagnosis & Planning
  6. Health Education & Counseling
  7. Epidemiology & Disease Control
  8. Maternal & Child Health
  9. Environmental Health & Sanitation
  10. Health Program Implementation & Evaluation

1. Community Health Nursing & Principles

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Community Health Nursing (CHN): A specialized field of nursing focused on promoting, protecting, and restoring the health of populations within communities through preventive, promotive, and curative services.

  • Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse (KRCHN): A registered nurse trained specifically to deliver community-based health services in Kenya, emphasizing primary health care, health education, and disease prevention at the community level.

  • Primary Health Care (PHC): Essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods, universally accessible to individuals and families in the community.

  • Health Promotion: The process of enabling people to increase control over, and improve, their health through education, policy-making, and community actions.

  • Disease Prevention: Strategies aimed at reducing the risk of disease development, including immunization, health education, and screening programs.

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1. What is community health nursing primarily focused on within communities?

2. What is the primary focus of Community Health Nursing (CHN)?

3. What is the primary purpose of the roles and responsibilities of community health nurses?

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Community Health Nursing — principles?

Preventive, promotive, holistic community-focused care

Community Health Nursing — focus?

Promoting, protecting, restoring community health.

Nursing Roles — responsibilities?

Health education, disease prevention, community advocacy

KRCHN — role?

Deliver community-based health services in Kenya.

Health Assessment — data types?

Subjective reports and objective measurements

Primary Health Care — principle?

Accessible, scientifically sound, community-based health care.

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