NURS303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Home Health Nursing, Public Health Nursing, Primary Healthcare
15 Dec 2017
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The goals of community health nursing are to keep individuals healthy, encourage client participation and choice in care, promote health enhancing social environments, and provide in-home care for ill or disabled clients. The gray nuns were established as canada"s first community nursing order. Kate brighty colley and edith kathleen russell pioneered community health nursing and public health nursing in canada. Population: a collection of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common. Community: a group of people who share a geographic dimension and social dimension (which comprises individual relationships, interactions among groups, and shared characteristics among members) Primary health care focuses on education, rehabilitation, support services, health promotion, and disease prevention. Involves multidisciplinary teams, collaboration with other sectors, and secondary and tertiary care facilities. Public health principles of disease prevention, health promotion, and health public policy can be applied to individuals, families, or communities.
