LECTURE NOTES For Nursing Students Community Health Nursing Daniel Mengistu Equlinet Misganaw University of Gondar In collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Heal th Training Initiative, The Carter Center, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education 2006 Funded under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. 663-A-00-00-0358-00. Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Pu blic Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education. Important Guidelines for Printing and Photocopying Limited permission is granted free of charge to print or photocopy all pages of this publication for educational, not-for-profit use by health care workers, students or faculty. All copies must retain all author credits and copyright notices included in the original document. Under no circumstances is it permissible to sell or distribute on a commercial basis, or to claim authorship of, copies of material reproduced from this publication. ©2006 by Daniel Mengistu and Equlinet Misganaw All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided above, no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the author or authors. This material is intended for educational use only by practicing health care workers or students and faculty in a health care field. iPREFACE Community health Nursing is the synthesis of nursing and public health practice applied to promote and protect the health of population. It combines all the basic elements of professional, clinical nursing with public health and community practice. Community health nursing is essential particularly at this point in time because it maximizes the health status of individuals, families, groups and the community through direct approach with them. Today community parti cipation and involvement is getting a due attention before the occurrence of illnesses as life-style changes to continue to play a significant role in morbidity and mortality. Chronis illnesses, tobacco smoking, road traffic accident (RTA) …etc, and environmental changes that affect health are steadily becoming the major concerns influencing human health in our country. As nurses of 21
st century we have duties and responsibilities to keep a dynamic balance with the ever changing needs of the health of our society. To maintain abreast with this societal needs we professional nurses must understand concepts and models of the community health nursing, the importance of health promotion and disease prevention and health care planning, iiimplementation and evaluation of health care efforts for the advantage of the community. The purpose for preparing this lecture note is to upgrade the previously prepared lecture note and to present the subject in a relatively simplified and organized way. The teaching material is based on the existing curriculum of community health nursing and consists of 14 units. Each unit has its own objectives, body and reviewing question at the end. Finally a lot of effort has gone in preparing this material within short period of time, valuable and constructive comments have welcome for the improving of this lecture note.
st century we have duties and responsibilities to keep a dynamic balance with the ever changing needs of the health of our society. To maintain abreast with this societal needs we professional nurses must understand concepts and models of the community health nursing, the importance of health promotion and disease prevention and health care planning, iiimplementation and evaluation of health care efforts for the advantage of the community. The purpose for preparing this lecture note is to upgrade the previously prepared lecture note and to present the subject in a relatively simplified and organized way. The teaching material is based on the existing curriculum of community health nursing and consists of 14 units. Each unit has its own objectives, body and reviewing question at the end. Finally a lot of effort has gone in preparing this material within short period of time, valuable and constructive comments have welcome for the improving of this lecture note.
