Functions of community health nurse

• Home • About • Mission and Vision • Board of Directors • APHN Staff • APHN Committees • APHN Regions • APHN Past and Present • What is a PHN? • Join/Renew • Organizational/Academic/Affiliate Membership • Individual Membership • Membership FAQ • Membership Flyers • Events • 2023 APHN ACHNE Joint Annual Conference Registration • 2023 Pre-Conference CPH Exam Review Registration • 2023 APHN ACHNE Preconference Workshop and Bus Tour • PHN News and Resources • PHN News and Views • Resources • Million Hearts • Links • Advocacy Toolkit • CPH Credential • Public Health Core Competencies • Career Board • Contact Us • Members What is a PHN? Welcome to the Association of Public Health Nurses (APHN). We are public health nurses (PHN) working across the 50 states and the US territories to promote the health and safety of the population and create healthy communities. Public health nursing is defined as the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences (American Public Health Association, Public Health Nursing Section, 1996). Public health nursing practice focuses on population health, with the goal of promoting health, and preventing disease and disability. Public Health Nurses comprise the largest segment of the professional public health workforce and serve in many different critical roles. Public Health Nurses work with the individuals and families that compose the communities and the systems that aff...

Throughout the history of nursing, nurses have served their communities and continue to fill many essential roles in healthcare and population health. Nurses promote healthy lifestyles, advocate for patients and provide health education. They also provide direct patient care. As key members of healthcare teams, they provide our communities with the knowledge needed for healthy living. The exact roles of nurses have changed somewhat over the years, but their importance in healthcare remains strong and continues to grow. Overview of Historical Nursing Roles Caring for the sick has always been an important part of everyday life, but the evolution of the nursing profession into its current state is a more recent development. Until a century ago, medical knowledge was very primitive, but caregivers throughout history did what they could to provide comfort to seriously ill and dying people. In the 1800s, with multiple wars such as the Civil War and Crimean War causing injuries and spreading disease among soldiers and civilians alike, the nursing profession as we know it today began to develop. The modern hospital, growing knowledge of sanitation practices and other recent developments made it easier for nursing to make a meaningful difference to patient survival and health, which decisively shifted the role of nurses from comforters to healthcare professionals who provide evidence-based treatment and wellness education. Nursing Roles Today Nurses in the modern era do so much mor...

From the first days of the Frontier Nursing Service in Leslie County, Kentucky in 1925, when nurse-midwives rode horseback into the mountains of Appalachia to care for families in an area that had no doctors, community nurses have worked for the health of their communities in different ways. Today, these registered nurses travel by car, but their aim is still the same: to improve the health of local residents. They do this in a number of ways. Community health nursing incorporates several basic concepts, including the promotion of healthy living, prevention of disease and health problems, medical treatment, rehabilitation, evaluation of community health care delivery and prevention systems, and research to further community health and wellness. A community nurse may provide direct care, educate individuals or the public, advocate for health improvements and perform research in community health. She might also lead or collaborate with other health care professionals, organizations, political figures and members of the community to promote health for her community. Public Health Nurses Public health nurses are often the most visible group in a community health improvement setting. They might be specialists in disease prevention with a focus on preventing infectious disease, work with mothers and children to improve nutrition, operate immunization clinics or lead efforts such as smoking cessation, preventing excessive sun exposure and water safety. Like the nurses who worked ...

Public health works to advance the community's general well-being, protect it from environmental risks, infectious disease transmission, and other threats, and ensure that all community members have access to safe and effective medical care. Promoting health and preventing disease for diverse population groups is the main goal of public health nursing. This could entail helping and caring for specific population members. What Does a Public Health Nurse Do? In terms of nursing practice, community public health nursing is similar to clinical nursing restricted to the four walls of hospitals. Additionally, it stresses curative and rehabilitative interventions through effective, tailored techniques, promotes wellness and prevents illness through education and health teachings, offers comfort and care through its sensitive nursing care interventions, and so forth. However, its distinctiveness lies in the fact that it extends beyond simply caring for a single client to include the entire family and the community. Public health nurses provide treatment for entire communities, in contrast to most nurses who focus on one patient at a time. Public health nurses can raise awareness of health issues, enhance community health and safety, and broaden access to care by engaging with entire communities. Key Roles and Responsibilities A public health nurse's responsibility is to advance public health. In this role, nurses concentrate on facilitating access to care for underserved and at-ri...

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Email: Dr. Kulbok is a Professor of Nursing and Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia (UVa). She is Chair of the Department of Family, Community, and Mental Health Systems and Coordinator of the Public Health Nursing Leadership track of the MSN Program. Dr. Kulbok is the principal investigator of an inter-professional, cross-institution, community-based participatory research project funded by the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth to design a substance use prevention program with youth, parents, and community leaders in a rural tobacco-growing county. While at UVa, she has co-directed two advanced education nursing (AEN) training grants: the first was focused on distance education and leadership in Health Systems Management (HSM) and Public Health Nursing (PHN), the second used distance technology to prepare rural nursing leader in HSM, PHN, and Psychiatric Mental Health. Prior to her faculty appointment at UVa, she was a faculty member at the Catholic University of America and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was project director of community/public health nursing AEN training grants. Dr. Kulbok currently serves as the Chair of the American Nurses Association (ANA) workgroup to revise the Public Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. She previously served as President-Elect and President of the ACHNE, and member and Chair of the Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations. She also completed a four-year term on the ANA,...

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