Important Concepts of Community Health Nursing (CHN): 

1. 1. Health Promotion - This concept focuses on promoting and improving the health of the community these includes health education, promoting healthy behaviors, and creating awareness.

   2. Disease Prevention - prevents the spread of diseases through various interventions such as immunization and education on sanitary practices.

   3. Environmental Health - Community health nursing is also concerned with environmental health issues like access to clean water, air quality, sanitation, waste management, and pollution control.

   4. Community Engagement - is an essential part of community health nursing. Nurses work with community members to create community-based initiatives, establish trust, and ensure that healthcare needs are met within the community.

   5. Cultural Competency - Being culturally competent allows community health nurses to understand and appreciate the diverse values, beliefs, and practices of the populations they serve, which helps in providing culturally appropriate care.

   6. Evidence-based Practice - This concept is important in community health nursing as it involves the use of the best available research evidence to guide clinical decision-making and practices. It helps nurses to provide quality care that is effective and safe for the population they serve.

Roles and Functions of the CHN Nurse:

1. 1. Advocator - Responsible for advocating and evaluating clients' physical and psychological health conditions and providing interventions accordingly.

   2. Manager/Supervisor -  Formulates individual, family, group, and community-centered care plan; organize a workforce.

   3. Trainer/Counselor -  identifies and interprets training needs, arranges and conducts training programs to provide learning experiences to subordinates and clients

   4. Change Agent - Responsible for promoting and teaching the client and their families about various aspects of health such as nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle modifications 

   5. Healthcare Provider - Work to prevent disease transmission and to prevent the onset of chronic disease by providing health screenings and immunizations.

   6. Researcher - They play a role in research studies or may conduct their own research and surveys to improve healthcare practices and protocols within their community.

Levels of Clientele: 

1. 1. Individual - “point entry”

   2. Family - the center of delivery of care.

   3. Group - point of specific care.

   4. Community - point of the entire care.

Home Visit - is a professional face-to-face contact done by the nurse with the family and is considered the backbone of community health services.

Priorities during Home Visit:

1. Newborn (FIRST)

2. Post-Partum

3. Pregnant mother

4. Morbid individual (LAST)

Bag Technique - is a tool that makes use of a public health bag and allows the public health nurse to perform procedures during home visits. 

Public Health Bag (PHB) - is an essential and indispensable equipment of for the Public Health Nurse to use during home visits. 

Primary Health Care - is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organizing and strengthening national health systems to support a person’s health needs, from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliative care, and more.

Levels of Prevention:

• 1. Primary Prevention - aims to prevent disease or injury before it ever occurs.

  2. Secondary Prevention - aims to reduce the impact of a disease or injury that has already occurred.

  3. Tertiary Prevention - aims to soften the impact of an ongoing illness or injury that has lasting effects. 

8 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS:

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

2. Achieve universal primary education

3. Promote gender equality and empower women

4. Reduce child mortality

5. Improve maternal health

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

7. Ensure environmental sustainability

8. Develop a global partnership for development