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HOME VISIT

Introduction

Community health nurses work with families in different settings,
including clinics, schools, offices and the family home. An important
aspect of community health nursing’s role in promoting the health of

population is providing services to individual families in their homes.
Home visit fulfills the needs of individual, family and community in
general for nursing service and health counseling.

Definition of home visit:

 Home visiting / home health service is that components of a continuum of
a comprehensive health care in which health services are provided to
individuals, and families in their place of residence for the purpose of
promoting maintaining or restoring health or of maximizing the level of
independence while minimizing the effect of disability and illness,
including terminal illness.
 Or it is a purposeful interaction in home directed at promoting and
maintaining the health of the family members.

The goal of home visit:

1- Maintain the family as independent unite within the health care
system.

2- Optimize the family capabilities at all levels.

Importance of Home Visit:

1-Enable the nurse to see at firsthand the interacting factors that impact

on the client health status.
2-Provides an opportunity for monitoring on a continuing basis, the

effectiveness of nursing intervention in solving client's problems.

3-The client is more at ease in his familiar surroundings
4-Nursing interventions are more realistic in nature and can be geared

to the client's specific environment

5-Brings health services within reach of all family members of the
community especially vulnerable groups who can't reach the health
service.

6-The nurse has unusual opportunities for early case finding

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