Community nursing combines the knowledge and skills of public health and nursing, and provides services for individuals, families and communities with the help of organized social forces.
The word community health care comes from English and can also be called community health care or community health care. According to the definition of American Nursing Association, community nursing is a comprehensive subject that combines public health and nursing theory to promote and maintain the health of community population. Community nursing takes health as the center, takes the community population as the object, and aims at promoting and maintaining the health of the community population.
Public health is a science and art to prevent diseases, prolong life, and promote physical and mental health and work efficiency. The main purpose of public health is to prevent diseases and prolong life through organized social forces.
Characteristics of community nursing:
Community nursing effectively combines public health and nursing, emphasizes both disease prevention and disease nursing, and finally achieves the goal of promoting and maintaining health. Therefore, community nursing has some characteristics of public health and nursing, but compared with public health and nursing, community nursing is more prominent in the following four aspects.
1, focusing on health promotion and maintenance-the main goal of community nursing is to promote and maintain people's health, so preventive service is the focus of community nursing.
2. For the whole community-the nursing object is the whole community, including healthy people and sick people.
3. Community nurses have a high degree of autonomy-in the process of community nursing, community nurses often have to go deep into the family to carry out various kinds of nursing alone, so they are required to have strong independent working ability and a high degree of autonomy.
4. Community nurses must cooperate closely with other related personnel-the content and object of community nursing determine that community nurses should cooperate closely not only with medical staff, but also with community residents, community managers and other related personnel.