Theories applied in Community Health Nursing
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Introduction
The concept of community is defined as "a
group of people who share some important feature of their lives and use
some common agencies and institutions." The concept of health is
defined as "a balanced state of well-being resulting from harmonious
interactions of body, mind, and spirit." The term community health is
defined by meeting the needs of a community by identifying problems and
managing interactions within the community
Basic Elements
The six basic elements of nursing practice incorporated in community health programs and services are:
Major Roles
The focus of nursing includes not only the
individual, but also the family and the community, meeting these
multiple needs requires multiple roles. The seven major roles of a
community health nurse are:
Major Settings
Settings for community health nursing can be grouped into six categories:
Theories and Models for community health nursing
The commonly used theories are:
Salmon White’s construct for public health nursing
Scope of prevention spans individual, family, community and global care. Intervention target is in 4 categories:
Block and Josten’s Ethical Theory of population focused nursing
Derryl Block and Lavohn Josten, public health
educators proposed this based on intersecting fields of public health
and nursing. They have given 3 essential elements of population focused
nursing that stem from these 2 fields:
the first two are from public health and the
third element from nursing. Hence it implies to nursing that
relation-based care is very important in population focused care.
Canadian Model for community
The community health nurse works with
individuals, families, groups, communities, populations, systems and/or
society, but at all times the health of the person or community is the
focus and motivation from which nursing actions flow. The standards of
practice are applied to practice in all settings where people live,
work, learn, worship and play.
The philosophical base and
foundational values and beliefs that characterize community health
nursing - caring, the principles of primary health care, multiple ways
of knowing, individual/community partnerships and empowerment - are
embedded in the standards and are reflected in the development and
application of the community health nursing process.
The community health nursing process
involves the traditional nursing process components of assessment,
planning, intervention and evaluation but is enhanced by community
health nurses in three dimensions:
The model illustrates the dynamic nature of
community health nursing practice, embracing the present and projecting
into the future. The values and beliefs (green or shaded) ground
practice in the present yet guide the evolution of community health
nursing practice over time. The community health nursing
process provides the vehicle through which community health nurses work
with people, and supports practice that exemplifies the standards of
community health nursing. The standards of practice revolve around both
the values and beliefs and the nursing process with the energies of
community health nursing always being focused on improving the health
of people in the community and facilitating change in systems or
society in support of health. Community health nursing practice does
not occur in isolation but rather within an environmental context, such
as policies within their workplace and the legislative framework
applicable to their work.
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