| Isn't it good health one of our priorities in | | | | |
| the family among other things? With that in | | | | As public health nurses, their role is to |
| mind, would not it be very comforting to know | | | | integrate community health involvement and |
| also if the community where we live in also | | | | knowledge about the entire community with |
| promotes public health nursing? Even if your | | | | personal and clinical understandings of the |
| eyebrows meet and your forehead carries a | | | | health and illness experiences of individuals |
| large question mark because you don't know | | | | and families within the community. Also, they |
| exactly it means and what it can do to your | | | | interpret and express the health and illness |
| community, but if you read it between the | | | | experiences of different, usually vulnerable |
| lines, I am sure you would say yes right | | | | individuals and families in the community to |
| away! | | | | health planners and policy makers and assist |
| | | | members of the community to speak up their |
| But, what really is public health nursing? | | | | problems and hopes. |
| For some, the words may sound familiar, while | | | | |
| others may find the words confusing. | | | | They may be carried out even by only one |
| Actually, this is the practice of upholding | | | | public health nurse or by a group of public |
| and protecting the health of the community by | | | | health nurses working together for the same |
| using the knowledge learned from nursing, | | | | purpose. There could be many activities that |
| social, and social health sciences. Given the | | | | public health nurses can do in order to |
| good intention of general health task, it is | | | | promote good health and protect the health of |
| not surprising to know that you can find | | | | the entire community. One of the best |
| social health nursing almost anywhere in the | | | | examples is providing health education, care |
| country. | | | | management and primary care to the people and |
| | | | families, especially those who are members of |
| In fact, developed to describe its specific | | | | vulnerable community. |
| roles and to provide a guide for health | | | | |
| nursing practice in the ever growing health | | | | Our world could be a better place to live in |
| care system. However, the social health | | | | if only all the community encourage public |
| nursing practice can be affected by certain | | | | health nursing in order to have disease-free |
| factors, such as environmental, biological, | | | | and health-conscious family. And since family |
| cultural, economic, social and political | | | | is the smallest unit of a community, the |
| aspects of a community. Due to the fact that | | | | awareness in promoting health should start |
| public health nursing is an integral part of | | | | within it. This is much easier to achieve |
| the healthcare system, the former is also | | | | through the help of public health nurses, |
| responsive to these factors by way of working | | | | knowing that it only takes one public health |
| with the community in promoting health and | | | | nurse to operate a public health nursing. |
| preventing disease, injury and disability. | | | | |