IESTP Technical Nursing School

COMMUNITY AND FAMILY HEALTH

Nursing in Community Health

LIC, MARCELA ALATRISTA LOPEZ

INTRODUCTION
The concept of community nursing is one that
it applies to the type of nursing dedicated to care and
to the prevention not only of the individual's health but also
also from the family and, especially, from the
community.
Community nursing is an important branch
from science since it has to do with the passage and the
establishment of habits, behaviors, and care
that not only take care of a person's health of
specific way, but rather assume the
maintenance of a safe community environment
healthy for all its members.
 Community Nursing
It constitutes a health discipline or science.
Your responsibility is to satisfy the
health needs of individuals or groups
(family, community)
Promote the health of individuals, families and
communities
It covers the functions of care both in the
health as in sickness (Management of
Caution.
And it extends from conception to
death.
He/She performs his/her role with autonomy.
professional and teamwork
 ENFERMERIA COMUNITARIA
Community Nursing Community nursing, as its name suggests,
It deals with health-related issues in the community.

When we talk about community nursing, we are referring to the

work that health professionals perform to ensure that, for example,
certain diseases and viruses do not spread in the community, that hygiene
that the living areas are maintained, that family health within the space
private be always ensured, etc.
 • Community Nursing is supported by a foundation
PRINCIPLES solid nursing integrating into their practice of
public health knowledge.
• The nature of the practice of nursing
community is based on the needs and
priority health problems of the population since the
participating processes.
• The action of community nursing will have
integral and integrated characters.
• Health education is a tool of
fundamental work.
• Community Nursing must work with and
for the community promoting participation
community.
• The family is considered by nursing.
community as its main service unit.
• Community nursing must be an advocate for
the values that contribute to maintaining a greater
solidarity and social justice, and equality of opportunities
COMMUNITY NURSING ROLES
 ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY NURSE
The role of the community nurse primarily consists of teaching the person, family, and community to
taking care of oneself through self-care.
This role is different from nursing care, which almost exclusively provides direct care and
dependent or interdependent actions.
In contrast, community nursing emphasizes its actions on health promotion and
disease prevention, considering the community as the place to which efforts should be directed
efforts and interdisciplinary work, with the aim of strengthening healthy behaviors and improving the
quality of life of the population.
Main objective of Community Nursing
One of the main objectives of Community nursing is to enhance the
health capabilities of individuals, transforming dependence into autonomy
through self-care.
In this way, the individual participates directly and actively in prevention.
disease; become aware of your role and learn from the health personnel in this case from the
nursing staff.
 PROFILE OF THE COMMUNITY NURSE

The community health nurse requires structured knowledge with

focus on the different levels of medical, family, and community care
according to the historical structure in which it develops, which is why the profile of this
a professional is committed to providing dynamic promotion, protection services,
detection, therapy, rehabilitation, teaching, and research, in line with the
national and institutional health policies of the country.
QUALITIES OF THE COMMUNITY NURSE
Observer, with a spirit of
service, professional, discreet
leader, educator, sociable,
to know listen
administrator, supervisor
responsible, researcher
humanista, decidida, dedicada,
dynamic and creative among others.
ROLE OF THE NURSE IN COMMUNITY HEALTH

It involves providing care to individuals, families, and groups within

the communities, using the relevant skills and knowledge both to the
nursing, like public health, provides concierge services, they perform
assessments, provide instruction and education, and implement research to
improve customer health care and also always acts as an advocate for the
client refers to an individual, family, group or community.
 HEALTH PROMOTION
It is a process through which individuals, families, and communities achieve an improvement in their level of.
health by taking greater control over themselves. This includes educational actions,
prevention and promotion of health, where the population acts in coordination in favor of policies,
systems and healthy lifestyles, through advocacy, empowerment and construction
of a social support system that allows him to live healthier.
IMPLICATIONS OF HEALTH PROMOTION

Health promotion encourages

changes in the environment that help
to promote and protect health. The
health promotion involves a
particular way of collaborating: it is
based on the population, it is
participatory, it is intersectoral and
operates on multiple levels.
FUNCTION OF HEALTH PROMOTION
Health promotion provides information and
necessary tools to improve knowledge,
skills and competencies necessary for life.

By doing so, it generates options for the population to exercise a

greater control over their own health and the environment, and for
to properly use health services

It also helps people prepare for the

different stages of life and face them with more resources
diseases and injuries, and their sequelae
 OBJECTIVES OF HEALTH PROMOTION
The promotion of health aims to create, maintain, and improve the
desirable health conditions for the entire population and promote them in the individual
the attitudes, values, and behaviors appropriate to motivate their participation in
benefit of individual and collective health.

Health promotion includes: • Education for

health; • Nutrition; • Control of harmful effects of
environment in health; • Occupational health, and • Promotion
sanitary
PARTICIPANTS IN COMMUNITY HEALTH

Promotion and prevention in health is everyone's responsibility and their activity in

the community must be embraced by all professionals in the health sector
like the officials representing the different authority agencies
who monitor and administer the general health in the community.
The promotion of health centered on the individual, family, and community is a
of the strategies that need to be strengthened to try to improve health and quality of
life
CONCLUSION
The community nurse carries out her activities
how to promote health along with others
participants in health and with other groups
identified vulnerable individuals, with families or from
individualized manner, with one or more members
from the family, using all the resources
available from the family system.
Community health nursing has a
community-oriented approach
based on the identification of problems of
health, which serves as a basis for planning
of activities related to promotion for
maintain health and prevent diseases
derived with the identified risks,
educational activities aimed at collaborating
with the solution to the identified problems,
as an integral part of a team
multidisciplinary health.