Community Health Nursing
Community Health Nursing
NURSING
By Diribsa.T
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY HEALTH
NURSING
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Course objectives
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Brain storming ???
What is community?
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Introduction..
• Community is a collection of people who share some
important feature of their lives.
• Is the collection of people holding common rights, sharing
common interests, living under the same laws and
regulations and share a sense of belonging to the group.
• Some communities may share almost everything, while
other communities may share only there common
interests.
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Types of community
Geographic Community
Common-interest Community
Community of solution
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Geographic Community
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Common-interest Community
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What is community health?
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Community health
Community health, as a field of practice, that seeks to
defined area.
protection, Immunization
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Populations
A group of people who share one or more
characteristics, but they do not necessarily interact
with one another and share a sense of
belongingness to that group.
E.g. Older adult with diabetic
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Who can define Health?
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Health
Each person has a personal perception of health.
Some people describe their state of health as good even
though they may actually have one or more diagnosed
illness.
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Cont..
Health is defined as a state of physical, mental, and social well
being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (WHO,
1948).
Lamberton (1978) sees the opposite of health as being no
health and the opposite of illness as being no disease.
Health is also conceptualized as a source for every day living.
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Models of Health
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A. Clinical Model (Dunn, 1961)
Interpreted health as the absence of signs and symptoms
of disease or injury.
Dunn defined, in this model;
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Host –Agent – Environment model..
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C. Health Belief Model (Rosen stock, 1974, as
Modified by Stone 1991)
It’s a person’s ideas about health and illness.
May be based on factual information, misinformation,
and false expectations.
Influence health behavior positively or negatively
Provides the understanding in which clients behave
their health.
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Health Belief Model..
Factors that influence persons belief’s:
Personal expectation in relation to health and illness
Earlier experience with illness or health
Age
Residence
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Components of HBM
Perceived susceptibility: its an individuals subjective
perception of the risk of acquiring the disease.
e.g. When a person is exposed to other person with an illness
Perceived severity: an individuals feeling on the
seriousness of an illness.
Perceived benefits: individuals perception of the
effectiveness of various action to reduce the threat or cure
the disease.
E.g. Promoting and applying preventive measures
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Components of HBM
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D. High – Level Wellness Model
According to this model health is recognized as an
ongoing process toward the person’s highest potential
functioning.
Dunn described high level wellness as the experience of
the person alive with the glow of good health.
Health is when an individual is engaging in physical
wellness, emotional wellness, social wellness and
spiritual wellness.
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E. Holistic Health Mode
• Is based on the belief that people cannot be fully understood if
examined solely in pieces apart from their environment.
• Health is the interaction of a person’s mind, body and spirit
within the environment.
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Community health Nursing
• It is a specialized field of nursing that focuses on the
health needs of communities.
• It is a practice that is continuous and comprehensive
directed towards all groups of community members.
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Characteristics of Community health Nursing
It is a specialty field of nursing
Its practice combines public health with nursing
It is population focused.
It emphasizes on wellness and other than disease or
illness
It involves inter-disciplinary collaboration
It promotes client’s responsibility and self-care
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Acute care and community – based care
Acute care
Used for people who are receiving intensive hospital
care
Directed at resolving immediate health problems.
Is part of the hospital care
Clients have life threatening conditions and require
close monitoring
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Community based care
-Improve sanitation
-Control of community epidemics
-Prevent the transmission of infection
-Provide education about personal hygiene 29
What are the roles of community health
nurse?
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Roles of Community Health Nursing
Clinician
Educator
Advocate
Managerial
Collaborator
Researcher
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Clinician role
Nurse provides holistic nursing care to individuals, family,
group and population.
Educator role
Health teaching is a part of good nursing practice and one
of the major functions of a community health nurse.
Useful because
Greater receptivity
Wider audience can be reached
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Advocate role
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Managerial role
• As a manager the nurse exercises administrative direction
towards the accomplishment of specified goals.
• Nurses serve as managers when they oversee client care,
supervise the staff, do case management, manage
caseloads, run clinics or conduct community health needs
assessment projects.
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Collaborator role
• The community health nurse work jointly in a common
endeavor, to co-operate as partners.
• They must work with clients, other nurses, physicians,
social workers and community leaders, nutritionists,
psychologists, epidemiologists, biostaticians, etc.
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Research role
• Community health nurses collect and analyze data for
the purpose of solving problems and enhancing
community health.
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Settings of community health nursing
practice
• The types of places in which community health
nurses practice are increasingly varied.
These settings can be grouped into five categories:
Homes
Out patient department (ambulatory service
settings)
Occupational health setting (factories, industries)
Social institutions (schools, Prisons, Orphanages)
The community at large
What is quality of health care mean?
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Quality health care
• It is degree to which health services for individuals &
population increase the likelihood of desired health
outcomes & are consistent with current professional
knowledge.
• Quality care is a care that is safe, effective, efficient,
patient centered, and timely delivered.
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Dimension of quality of health care
Safety
⚫Risk of an intervention and risk in the environment
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Dimension of quality of health care…
Efficiency
⚫Care has the desired effect with the minimum of waste
of resources
Patient centered
⚫Clients are involved in health care decisions and
respect for their individual needs, expectations and
differences by health care providers.
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Dimension of quality of health care…
Timeliness
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CHAPTER
TWO
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What are the
phases of nursing
process?
•One minute…!!!
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Nursing Consists of five phases:
Community assessment
process Community diagnosis
Planning
cont.. Implementation and
Evaluation
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Is a systematic and continuous collection
of data about a community’s health status
to discover existing or potential health
problem.
It includes;
Community
assessment
• Collecting pertinent community data
• Organizing and interpreting the
collected data.
• Validation of the data
• Documentation
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Major Aspects of community Assessment
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Brain storming ???
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There are 4 methods
Survey
Community Descriptive
epidemiological studies
assessment Community forum/
methods Town hall meetings
Focus group
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Source of community data
1. Primary data:
– It is obtained directly from the community.
– It offers the most accurate and comprehensive
information
2. Secondary data:
– Are data obtained from people who know the
community well and the records they create
– E.g. WHO, MOH, Hospitals, Health centers and Health
posts..
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Breakout
COMMUNITY
DIAGNOSIS
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Is a real judgment or conclusions
about individual/ family/community
response to actual or potential
problems (ANA).
Community
diagnosis Is a statement that defines the health
problems or health risks of the
community.
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Types of
community
diagnosis
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It has three parts:-
1. Description of the problem
Types of 2. Identification of etiology
community related to the problem
3. The sign and symptoms that
diagnosis.. characteristics of the problem.
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• Examples;
Inadequate ANC r/t inadequate
Types of health service accessibility as
community evidenced by 70% of female
diagnosis.. delivering at hospital with no
antenatal care.
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Planning?
•Breakout
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The formulation of guidelines that
establish the proposed course of
nursing action in the resolution of
nursing diagnoses.
It is a process of determining how to
Planning give nursing care in organized,
individualized and goal directed
manner based on community
assessment and diagnosis.
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1. Setting priorities
2. Setting goals and
objective
Globally written statement
Plannin describing the intended
g change in the client’s
behavior, response, or
involve outcome
s 3. Determining nursing
interventions
4. Recording the plan of
care
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Breakout
• If you had someone with
the following problems,
which problem would you
need to treat immediately?
• Diarrhea
• Ineffective breathing
pattern
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Implementation
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Implementation..
Is putting the plan into actions
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Levels of prevention
Primary prevention
Refers to the prevention of an illness
before it has a chance to occur
Examples:
• Eating well balanced diet
• Regular exercise program
• Maintaining weight
Aims
• Health promotion
• Protection against illness
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Secondary prevention
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Secondary
prevention..
Has two sub-levels
a. Early detection of disease
b. Prompt treatment
e.g. Antibiotic treatment of
streptococcal pharyngitis aimed at
preventing rheumatic fever
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Tertiary Prevention
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Chapter three
HOME HEALTH
SERVICES
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cancer
Ecomap
• is a visual representation of a family in
relation to the community
• It demonstrates the nature and quality of
family relationships
• useful in identifying the strengths of family
networks and what resources they have
available during stressful times
Characteristics
of healthy
family
• Facilitative interaction among
members
• Enhancement of individual
development
• Effective structuring of relationship
• Active coping effort
• Healthy environment and lifestyle
• Regular link with the border
community
Factors Affecting Family Health
• Balance diet
• Personal and environmental sanitation
• Economic status
CHAPTER FOUR
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Objectives
• At the end of this lesson the students will be able to:
Mention goal and objectives of SHS
Describe major component of SHS
Analyzes the programs of SHS
List common health problems in school
List the main purposes of PHS
Explain the common health problems among prisoners
List the responsibilities of community health nurse in
PHS
Identify contributing factors to the spread of disease
among prisoners.
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1. School Health Service (SHS)
• School health is that phase of community health
service that promotes the well-being of the child
and his education for healthful living.
• A school health program refers to all activities
that contribute to the initiation, maintenance and
improvement of the health of school children
and personnel.
• This program includes health learning, health
practice during school hours and health
services.
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1. School health service (SHS)…
• Goal
– To support the educational process by helping to
keep children healthy, by teaching students &
teachers preventive health measures.
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1. School health service (SHS)…
• Objectives of SHS
Promote health and develop concern of there own heath.
Detect disease and deviation from normal heath at an
early stage and arrange for promote, treatment and
follow up.
Prevent communicable disease and non communicable
disease.
Provide a healthy and safe environment in all round for
development of child physical, mental, social, emotional
and moral well-being.
Help children to make the best use of educational
facilities….
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Major components of SHS
1. Health service
2. Environmental protection and control
3. Health education
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Major components of SHS…
1. Health service
Health promotion
Health screening
Surveillance of immunization status
Counseling
Minimum routine examination
Case finding for early detection of health problems
Treatment of minor ailments
Case managements
Simple first Aid and Accident control like fall injury
Care of pupils with special health needs
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Major components of SHS…
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Major components of SHS…
3. Health education
Teaching about first aids
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Common health problems among
school children
Communicable diseases
Behavioral problems
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Role of community nurse in school Health program
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2. PRISON HEALTH SERVICES (PHS)
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Main Purpose of Prison Health Service (PHS)
To solve the immediate health problems of the
prisoner both physical and mental.
Prisoners do have a right to get health service
To prevent transmission of diseases
To teach prisoners the basics of health and change
their behavior.
To prevent the spread of infections and especially
chronic ones like TB, Leprosy from the prisoner to
the community
To train the prisoners as first aiders.
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Common Health Problems in the Prison
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Common Health Problems in the Prison…
Malnutrition
Gastroenteritis
Urinary tract infection
Arthralgia
Homosexuality
Sexually transmissible diseases (STD’s)
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Major stressors specific to the condition are:
Loss such as loss of job, freedom, family contacts,
dignity, food choices
Privacy and sexual activities.
Threats such as the threats of homosexual, physical
discomfort, sleeping, eating and other personal
functions.
Drugs or alcoholic withdrawal, feelings of
infidelity (lack of religion, belief)
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Sources of Diseases
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Factors responsible for the origin and
spread of diseases in prisons
Poor housing
Inadequate ventilation
Overcrowding
Malnutrition
Poor personal hygiene
Poor environmental hygiene
Poor waste disposal
Prolonged stay in prison
Lack of knowledge…
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Responsibilities of the PHN during PHS
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Responsibilities…
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CHAPTER FIVE
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
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Session objective
At the end of this chapter, the students will be
able to:-
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One
minute…
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Environmental
health..???
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Environmental health
• Is referred as all external factors to a
person
that influence human health.
• Is a practice of assessing,
correcting, controlling, and
preventing those factors which
have a deleterious effect on the
physical, mental, and social
wellbeing
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Components of
Environmental Health
Personal hygiene: Hygiene of human
body and clothing.
Water supply: Adequacy, safety, quality
of water for
domestic, drinking and recreational
use.
Human waste disposal: Proper excreta
disposal and liquid waste management.
Solid waste management: Proper
application of storage, collection,
disposal
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of waste.Waste production 12
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Components of
Environmental Health..
Vector control: Control of rodents and
arthropods that transmit disease
Food hygiene: Food safety and
wholesomeness in its production, storage,
preparation, distribution and sale, until
consumption.
Healthful housing: Physiological needs,
protection against disease and accidents,
psychological and social comforts in
residential and recreational areas
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Components of
Environmental
Health..
Institutional health: Communal hygiene and
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According to the Federal
Ministry of Health, more than
80% of communicable
diseases in Ethiopia are
Environmental
health believed to be preventable
Intervention using environmental health
Models
interventions.
Generally, there are
two
A. intervention
Clinical intervention
model
models:
B. Public health model
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Environmental health
Intervention Models..
Clinical intervention model:
• Looks at treating the sick person
Public health model
• Looks at how to stop people
getting sick in the first place by
providing a healthy environment.
• Concentrates on the maintenance of
health through education and keeping
the environment safe.
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Improving human health and
hazards.
Working in coordination with
Role of Nurse in local authority, and higher
Environmental levels of administration.
Health
Designing and developing plans of
action
for environmental health
Initiating and implementing
hygiene,
sanitation and environmental
programs.
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Contributing in policy and
guide line
development and advocacy
Engage in research activities
Role of Nurse in
related to environmental
Environmental
Health health
Communicating risk
information with individuals and
communities
Assessing environmental
health risks in various settings.
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