The word community nursing comes from English, which can also be called community health care or community health care. According to the definition of American Nursing Association, community nursing is a comprehensive subject that combines public health and nursing theory to promote and maintain the health of community population. Community nursing aims at promoting and maintaining community health.
Characteristics of community nursing:
1, focusing on promoting and maintaining health. The main goal of community nursing is to promote and maintain the health of the population, so preventive service is the focus of community nursing.
2. Face the whole community. The object of care is everyone in the community.
3. Community nurses have high autonomy. In the process of community nursing, community nurses often go deep into the family to carry out various kinds of nursing alone, so they are required to have strong independent working ability and high autonomy.
4. Community nurses must work closely with other relevant personnel.
Extended data
The development of community nursing;
1, home care stage
As early as before the middle of19th century, due to the lack of health service resources, the limitation of medical level and the blank of nursing specialty, most patients were recuperating at home and taken care of by housewives.
2, a large number of nursing stages
During the 50 years from the middle of19th century to the end of19th century, Britain and the United States set up a large number of nursing services to enable the poor and patients to enjoy basic nursing services and improve their health.
3. Public health care stage
/kloc-since the end of 0/9, the service object and service content of district nursing have been gradually broadened, and its service object has been expanded from poor patients to district residents; Its service content has also expanded from simple medical care to preventive health care services. Most nurses are volunteers.
4. Community nursing stage
Since 1970s, more and more nurses in the world have provided medical care and public health care services with the community as the scope and health promotion and disease prevention as the goal. This service is called community nursing, and nurses are called community nurses.
Baidu encyclopedia-community nursing