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ADVANCED ROLE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

 Community health nurses engage in systematic investigation,
collection, and analysis of data for solving problems and enhancing

community health practice.

10) Ethics in community health nursing practice

 Rapid changes in the health care delivery system have made life

more complex and have provoked dilemmas never before faced by
consumers or health care providers.

11) Clinical nurse specialist

 The clinical nurse specialist (CNC) is a registered nurse who holds

a master or doctoral degree in nursing with expertise in a clinical
nursing specialty.

 The CNS role is an advanced nursing practice (ANP) role

12) Partnership / Collaboration

 Community health nurses help create professional-community
partnerships to assist communities in planning to improve their

health. The goal is to strengthen a community's competence to

interact, develop solutions to community problems and promote
health.

13) Health informatics

 Information technology can assist health care professionals to

significantly improve the delivery of health care services

 Community health nurses must be challenged to move beyond
informatics and create an electronic community infrastructure that

provide worldwide linkages between international, national, local
governmental and community organizations.

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