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.
Public health is the science and art of preventing diseases, prolonging life, promoting physical and mental health and working efficiency. The main purpose of public health is to prevent diseases and prolong life through organized social forces.
Nursing is a comprehensive applied science in the medical field, which combines the theories of natural science and social science to form the theoretical system and technical operation of nursing: nursing is a process of diagnosing and dealing with existing or potential human health problems.
With the change of nursing mode, the scope of nursing is gradually expanding. From disease care to disease prevention; But the focus is still on the strength of nursing staff to help patients recover and reduce disability.
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Community health assessment is highlighted 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.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-community nursing