Description

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 participation 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 21st 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,

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