Community-Based Nursing Services

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• Assessment of Community Health Needs
• Community Diagnosis aims to obtain a general information about the community.
• The following are elements of a comprehensive community diagnosis:
1. Demographic variables
2. Socio-economic and cultural variables
3. Health and Illness patterns
4. Health resources
5. Political/Leadership patterns

• Steps in Conducting Community Diagnosis
1. Determining the objectives
2. Defining the study population
3. Determining the data to be collected
4. Collecting the data
5. Developing the instrument
6. Actual data gathering
7. Data collation
8. Data presentation
9. Data analysis
10. Identifying the Community Health Nursing Problems
11. Priority setting
• Planning for Community Health Nursing Programs and Services
• Goal and objective setting
• Nursing Intervention for Community Health Development
• Community organizing
• Evaluation of Community Health Nursing