In: Nursing
Give a personal definition of Community Health (in reference to a community health nurse).
Community Health is a field of healthcare that focuses on maintaining, protecting, and improving the health status of the groups of population and communities and this involves the active role of nurses and physicians in it. As a community health nurse, a nurse serves the patients by visiting their homes; determining the needs of the patient and family; developing the health care plans; providing the services of nursing and treatments; referring patients who have social and emotional problems to other community agencies.