Introduction to Community Health Nursing

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The science and art of preventing diseases, prolonging life, promoting health and efficiency through organized community efforts

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Public Health

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Special field of nursing that combines the skills of nursing, public health and some phases of social assistance and functions

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Public Health Nursing

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a synthesis of nursing practice and public health practice applied to promoting and preserving the health of the population

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Community Health Nursing

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A philosophy of care that is characterized by collaboration, continuity of care, client and family responsibility for self-care, and preventive health care

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Community based Nursing

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promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative nursing services

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scopes of services of CHN

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Achieving the highest level of community health by developing and enhancing the capabilities

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ultimate objective

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raise the levels of health of the citizenry by helping communities and families to cope with the discontinuities and threats to health in such a way as to maximize their potentials for high level wellness.

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goal of CHN

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a group that not only shares common values and beliefs but whose members interact with one another and take action on common issues

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aggregate

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practice that focuses on entire population, grounded on community assessment, emphasizes prevention

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population based practice

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during this period, people assumed that sicknesses came from witch craft and magic

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primitive time

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boring the skull to get rid of evil spirit

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trephination

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during this period people struggled to survive, and trial and error was used for health care

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ancient period

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a law on medical practice

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code of Hammurabi

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started building irrigation canals and practiced prophylaxis. This civilization also emphasized personal hygiene and cleanliness

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Egyptian

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Built the aqueducts which greatly improved sanitation. Also was the first to establish hospitals and have health officers

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Romans

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known as the founders of public hygiene

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hebrews

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father of sanitation

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moses

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pertained to every aspect of individual, family & community hygiene ( isolation, hygiene, rest and sleep, hours of work, disposal of excreta,

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Mosaic Health Code

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during this period philosophers such as hipocrates and aristotle expounded the science of preventive medicines

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greek

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God of Health

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Apollo

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God of healing

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Aesculapius

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( daughter of Apollo) Goddess of Health

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Hygeia

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Father of medicines

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Hippocrates

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differentiated arteries from veins

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Aristotle

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organized visiting of the sick, were also called visiting nurses which fronted CHN

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order of Deaconesses:

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a friend of St Paul and the first Deaconess and visiting nurse.

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Phoebe

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Women of high rank gave their wealth to charity and nursing

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Woman matrons

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founded the first hospital (made the first hospital and hospice for strangers)

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Fabiola

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converted her home to monastery

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Marcella

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built monasteries and hospital

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St. Paula

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series of holy war between the Christian and the Muslim

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Crusades

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Dark period in nursing due to war and famine, plague and the downgrade of health care

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Middle Ages

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forerunner of occupational nursing and introduced technology that led to proliferation of factories.

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Industrial revolution

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introduced modern principles of visiting nurse and social services and Organized the daughters of charity

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St Vincent De Paul

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father of modern district nursing with the encouragement of Florence Nightingale, organized a training school for nurses in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary

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William Rathbone

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worked in dispensaries

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District nursing

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Home nursing, The Lady with a Lamp

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Florence Nightingale

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included district nursing and visiting nursing within her broader concept of CHN

First to coin Public Health Nurse

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Lilian Wald