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What is the primary focus of community health nursing?
What is the primary focus of community health nursing?
- Focusing solely on individual health concerns
- Providing curative health services
- Emphasizing primary prevention to prevent community health problems (correct)
- Prioritizing care for wealthy individuals
What are the three necessary components of community health nursing identified by WHO?
What are the three necessary components of community health nursing identified by WHO?
- Ensuring needed health services are provided, prioritizing care for wealthy individuals, involving the client in planning and evaluating health care
- Ensuring needed health services are provided, prioritizing care for vulnerable groups, involving the client in planning and evaluating health care (correct)
- Providing curative health services, prioritizing care for vulnerable groups, excluding the client from planning and evaluating health care
- Providing curative health services, prioritizing care for vulnerable groups, involving the client in planning and evaluating health care
What is the role of community health nurses in identifying and addressing health concerns in a community?
What is the role of community health nurses in identifying and addressing health concerns in a community?
- They solely rely on government agencies to identify and address health concerns
- They prioritize care for wealthy individuals over vulnerable groups
- They participate in community assessment efforts to identify health concerns and plan activities to address them (correct)
- They only focus on providing curative health services to individuals
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Study Notes
- Community health nursing aims to enhance the health of individuals, families, groups and communities through preventive health services.
- Primary prevention is prioritized to prevent community health problems from occurring.
- Community health nurses view services in the context of family and community.
- WHO identified three necessary components of community health nursing: ensuring needed health services are provided, prioritizing care for vulnerable groups, and involving the client in planning and evaluating health care.
- Community health nurses participate in community assessment efforts to identify health concerns and planning activities to address them.
- Vulnerable groups are a priority for community health nursing.
- Care for mothers, children, and disadvantaged groups is a long-standing involvement of community health nursing.
- Collaboration with communities, families, individuals, and other professionals is essential in planning and evaluating health care.
- Voluntary organizations, self-help groups, informal health care providers, government, and the private sector are all partners in community health nursing.
- Community health nursing is a unique nursing specialty.
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