Class 1- community & population health
nursing 2025
what is community helath nursing
-who do commuinty health nurses partner with - ANSWER ✔✨----It's a practice that describes the
work of nurses who work in teh community
Partner with ppl where they live, work, learn, meet and play to promote health
-variety of practice areas like public health, home health, occupational health
-16% of the nursing workforce
-occupational health nurses (infectious diseases and vaccines?)
-in mines, mills
School nurses
-go in and do education, train
,Play:
-do education to sports groups and so on
-LOOK AT SLIDE 24 FROM COMMUNITY and 52! - ANSWER ✔✨----Look at page 26 in community
book!!!
look at case study for community!!!(Marnie)
Characteristics of community health nursing
In community health nursing practice, nurses build their expertise in a specialty area and demonstrate
the following characteristics and features: - ANSWER ✔✨---In community health nursing practice,
nurses build their expertise in a specialty area and demonstrate the following characteristics and
features:
1. Promote, protect, preserve health, prevent disease and injury
2. Promote, protect, preserve the environment that contributes to health
-CHN want to minimize health disparities & adress SDOH
-CHN specialities have increased & the scope has expanded - ANSWER ✔✨----policy influence &
developemnt is important priority for CHN's bc of it's relationship w/health status
-CHN's make diff through work in areas like population health (upstream thinking), etc
Canada health act
-federal gov's role in health care - ANSWER ✔✨----to create more equitable health care system
1. universality
,2. accessibility
3. Comprehensiveness of services
4. Portability
5. Public administration
Role:
-establishing/administering principles
-providing financial support to provinces/territories
-delivers primary services to groups (FN's on reserves, Inuit, canadian forces, veteranswer, inmates in
federal jail, groups of refugee claimants)
Characteristics of community health nursing - ANSWER ✔✨---1. Advocate for healthy public policy
2. Lead in the integration of comprehensive and multiple health promotion approaches that build the
capacity of clients
3. Respect the diversity of clients and caregivers, focus on the linkages bw health and illness experiences
and enable clients to achieve health
4. Provide evidence informed care in a variety of settings such as the client's home, school, office, clinics,
on the street, communal living settings or workplace
5. Cooperate, coordinate and collaborate with a variety of partners, disciplines, and sectors
, 6. Recognize that healthy communities and systems that support health contribute to health for all
7. Engage a range of resources to support health by coordinating care, and planning services, and
programs
8. Work with a high degree of autonomy to initiate strategies that will address the determinants of
health and positively impact people and their community
CHN:
Big advocacy piece in community health
-whole thing around vaccines & anti vaccers (important aspect of creating healthy public policies &
attempt to change behaviours)
-looking at diff apprrahces
-self care so they can take care of themselves - ANSWER ✔✨---That'swhy we spend a lot of time
on program planning
-TONS of autonomy in community nursing
-with autonomy comes responsibility (interprofessional practice and collaborate with other partners)
Health of Client
-where do CHN's practice?
-what type of approach do they us
nursing 2025
what is community helath nursing
-who do commuinty health nurses partner with - ANSWER ✔✨----It's a practice that describes the
work of nurses who work in teh community
Partner with ppl where they live, work, learn, meet and play to promote health
-variety of practice areas like public health, home health, occupational health
-16% of the nursing workforce
-occupational health nurses (infectious diseases and vaccines?)
-in mines, mills
School nurses
-go in and do education, train
,Play:
-do education to sports groups and so on
-LOOK AT SLIDE 24 FROM COMMUNITY and 52! - ANSWER ✔✨----Look at page 26 in community
book!!!
look at case study for community!!!(Marnie)
Characteristics of community health nursing
In community health nursing practice, nurses build their expertise in a specialty area and demonstrate
the following characteristics and features: - ANSWER ✔✨---In community health nursing practice,
nurses build their expertise in a specialty area and demonstrate the following characteristics and
features:
1. Promote, protect, preserve health, prevent disease and injury
2. Promote, protect, preserve the environment that contributes to health
-CHN want to minimize health disparities & adress SDOH
-CHN specialities have increased & the scope has expanded - ANSWER ✔✨----policy influence &
developemnt is important priority for CHN's bc of it's relationship w/health status
-CHN's make diff through work in areas like population health (upstream thinking), etc
Canada health act
-federal gov's role in health care - ANSWER ✔✨----to create more equitable health care system
1. universality
,2. accessibility
3. Comprehensiveness of services
4. Portability
5. Public administration
Role:
-establishing/administering principles
-providing financial support to provinces/territories
-delivers primary services to groups (FN's on reserves, Inuit, canadian forces, veteranswer, inmates in
federal jail, groups of refugee claimants)
Characteristics of community health nursing - ANSWER ✔✨---1. Advocate for healthy public policy
2. Lead in the integration of comprehensive and multiple health promotion approaches that build the
capacity of clients
3. Respect the diversity of clients and caregivers, focus on the linkages bw health and illness experiences
and enable clients to achieve health
4. Provide evidence informed care in a variety of settings such as the client's home, school, office, clinics,
on the street, communal living settings or workplace
5. Cooperate, coordinate and collaborate with a variety of partners, disciplines, and sectors
, 6. Recognize that healthy communities and systems that support health contribute to health for all
7. Engage a range of resources to support health by coordinating care, and planning services, and
programs
8. Work with a high degree of autonomy to initiate strategies that will address the determinants of
health and positively impact people and their community
CHN:
Big advocacy piece in community health
-whole thing around vaccines & anti vaccers (important aspect of creating healthy public policies &
attempt to change behaviours)
-looking at diff apprrahces
-self care so they can take care of themselves - ANSWER ✔✨---That'swhy we spend a lot of time
on program planning
-TONS of autonomy in community nursing
-with autonomy comes responsibility (interprofessional practice and collaborate with other partners)
Health of Client
-where do CHN's practice?
-what type of approach do they us
