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COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

Table (1): Development of CHNg

Types of Services
Stages Focus Agencies
Ng emphasis

Early home Sick, poor Individual Curative Lay and

care (Before oriented religious
mid-1800s)
Leaders.

District Ng Sick, poor Individual Curative, Voluntary and
(1860-1900) oriented beginning of some
preventive governmental

Ph. Ng (1900- Needy Family Curative Governmental
1970) public oriented preventive and some
voluntary

Emergence of Total Population Health Many kinds,

CHNg (1970 community oriented promotion, some
till present) illness independent
prevention practices.

Characteristics of CH. Nursing

CHNg has 6 important characteristics

1- It is a field of nursing i.e. a specialty within the larger discipline.
2- It combines the specialized knowledge of PH with nursing practice

(e.g. epidemiology, vital statistics…etc).

3- It is population oriented and does not deal only with individual
clients.

4- It emphasizes health rather than disease or illness.

5- It involves interdisciplinary collaboration i.e. team work with other
professionals.

6- It promotes client participation by fostering a sense of responsibility
among people for their own health.

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