What are the scope of community nursing work?

The scope of community nursing is very extensive, but its work content can be summarized as the following aspects:

1. Community health service. Community health care service refers to the provision of physical and mental health care services at different ages for all kinds of people in the community, with the focus on women, children and the elderly.

2. Management of patients with chronic physical and mental diseases in community. The management of patients with chronic physical and mental diseases in community refers to providing necessary nursing and management services for all patients with chronic diseases, infectious diseases and mental diseases in the community.

3. Referral service for acute and severe patients in the community. Community referral service for acute and severe patients refers to helping those acute and severe patients who can't get proper care or management in the community to transfer to appropriate medical institutions in order to get timely and necessary treatment.

4. Community hospice care service. It is to provide various physical and mental services for terminally ill patients and their families in the community, to help patients complete the last step of their lives, and to minimize the impact on other family members.

5. Community health education. Community health education refers to providing planned, organized and evaluated health education activities to all kinds of people in the community with the goal of promoting and maintaining residents' health, so as to improve residents' health awareness, develop healthy lifestyles and behaviors, and finally improve residents' health level.

6. Community rehabilitation services. Community rehabilitation service refers to providing rehabilitation nursing services for the disabled in the community to help them improve their health and restore their functions.