Community Health Nursing
Community types ✔✔geographic, common interest, community of solution
community of solution ✔✔group of people who come together to solve problems
that affects all of them, ex: guidance counselors, counties working for water
pollution
common interest ✔✔collection of people with interest or goal that bind them
together, ex: MADD, disabled community, church groups, gay community
population ✔✔all the people occupying an area, or all those who share one more
characteristic, may not necessarily interact
aggregates ✔✔a mass or grouping of distinct individuals who are considered as a
whole and are loosely associated with each other, broader term then population;
communities and populations are types
goal of community health nursing ✔✔health promotion, disease prevention, and
health protection
promotion of health ✔✔health education, preventative care services, healthy
people 2030, raise levels of wellness for individuals, families, populations and
communities
prevention of health problems ✔✔anticipating and averting problems or
discovering them as early as possible to minimize potential disability and impairment
primary prevention ✔✔to keep illness from occurring, hand rails, immunizations
secondary prevention ✔✔efforts to detect and treat existing health problems.
Screenings: htn, drug abuse, breast exam, DM test; to intervene to control or
eradicate before morbidity becomes severe
tertiary prevention ✔✔attempts to reduce the extent and severity of health
problems so as to minimize disability and restore or reserve function: rehab after
CVA.
tertiary prevention ✔✔someone that has an eating disorder, following up with
counseling
treatment of disorders ✔✔focuses on illness by: direct service, indirect service,
development of programs to correct unhealthy conditions
evaluation ✔✔process by which the practice is analysis, judged, and improved
according to established goals and standards
Community types ✔✔geographic, common interest, community of solution
community of solution ✔✔group of people who come together to solve problems
that affects all of them, ex: guidance counselors, counties working for water
pollution
common interest ✔✔collection of people with interest or goal that bind them
together, ex: MADD, disabled community, church groups, gay community
population ✔✔all the people occupying an area, or all those who share one more
characteristic, may not necessarily interact
aggregates ✔✔a mass or grouping of distinct individuals who are considered as a
whole and are loosely associated with each other, broader term then population;
communities and populations are types
goal of community health nursing ✔✔health promotion, disease prevention, and
health protection
promotion of health ✔✔health education, preventative care services, healthy
people 2030, raise levels of wellness for individuals, families, populations and
communities
prevention of health problems ✔✔anticipating and averting problems or
discovering them as early as possible to minimize potential disability and impairment
primary prevention ✔✔to keep illness from occurring, hand rails, immunizations
secondary prevention ✔✔efforts to detect and treat existing health problems.
Screenings: htn, drug abuse, breast exam, DM test; to intervene to control or
eradicate before morbidity becomes severe
tertiary prevention ✔✔attempts to reduce the extent and severity of health
problems so as to minimize disability and restore or reserve function: rehab after
CVA.
tertiary prevention ✔✔someone that has an eating disorder, following up with
counseling
treatment of disorders ✔✔focuses on illness by: direct service, indirect service,
development of programs to correct unhealthy conditions
evaluation ✔✔process by which the practice is analysis, judged, and improved
according to established goals and standards
