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