Community Health Nursing
Community health nursing is a combination of nursing practice, Public Health practice, Health endorsement and Primary medical Care. The practice of community health nursing particularly expands into the areas of illness prevention, health improvement, empowerment, support, community development and health research.
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The nature of community health nursing is full directed towards the person, families and the society at large. The community health nurse particularly fulfils an exclusive role in the society, promoting and defending the health of the society, whilst using a framework of sustainability. Community health nursing acts to endorse optimum fitness of persons and the society by promoting the right to informed choice, encouragement and self determination.
Community health nurses recognize and challenge barriers to wellness and give power to people to change the agents that influence their health adversely. Community health nursing practice is built upon the base of nursing science. Community health nurses within Berwick wide Community Health Service (B.C.H.S) have all undertaken added nursing education to practice as community fitness nurses within a most important health care setting.
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Health care as explained by World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes that this setting can be the primary level of contact with a health system that is in close immediacy to where people work and live. When the community health nurse works within a main health care setting there are numeral core concepts of nursing that are inborn and valued within these surroundings, they include:
a) Encouragement and understanding of fitness as a complete state of physical, social and affecting well-being, not merely the deficiency of disease.
b) Contribution to identifying and meeting the main physical requirements of the community.
c) Reachable, available and reasonable nursing services based on principles of social justice and impartiality.
d) Inclusive nursing service delivery and nursing program content that includes medical treatment, early recognition and intervention and medical promotion.
e) The contribution and discussion of people and communities about fitness issues and their own health care.
f) Multi-disciplinary nursing approaches.
g) Promoting fitness through working in teamwork with other sectors in order to address the social and ecological factors that inhibit health and well-being.
Working in medical centers, clinics, community-based settings, hospitals and neonatal intensive care units (ICU), the Neonatal CNS cares for an extensive range of neonates, including fit and healthy new born babies, infants with chronic health problems and babies with acute, life-threatening illnesses. The CNS may also conduct nursing research, act as a health advisor or provide nursing education to both hospital staff and families.
