NCM 113 COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING II
1st Semester of A.Y. 2021-2022
Task #2
I. Answer the following questions:
Concepts of the Community
A. What are the types of Communities? Define each briefly.
● Geographic Community - The geographic boundaries of a
community are frequently used to define it. a town, a city, a
neighborhood, also known as a locality, is a geographical area.
● Common-Interest Community - Even though they are
geographically far, a group of people might be brought together
by a common interest or objective. A group of people can
sometimes build a feeling of community by promoting their
mutual interests within a specific geographic area.
● Community of Solution - A group of individuals who come
together to solve an issue that affects them all is a sort of
community that is frequently encountered in community health
practice.
B. What are the Characteristics of a Healthy Community?
● They collaborate effectively in identifying the problems and
needs of the community.
● They achieve a working consensus on goals and priorities.
● They agree on ways and means to implement the agreed-on
goals.
● They collaborate effectively in the required actions.
C. Enumerate the Components of a Community
● People
● Environment
● The economy/Economic system
● Health
● Quality of life
● Culture
D. Discuss the factors affecting health of the community
1. Characteristics of the Population - Population consists not of
a specialized aggregate, but of all the diverse people who live
within the boundaries of the community. The health of any
community is greatly influenced by the attributes of its
population.
Community health nurses can better understand any community
by knowing about its population variables: size, density,
composition or demography, rate of growth or decline,
cultural characteristics, social class structure, and mobility.
2. Location of the Community - A community's location positions
it in an environment that provides resources while also posing
hazards.
Six location variables: community boundaries, location of
health services, geographic features, climate, flora and
fauna, and the human-made environment.
3. Social Systems within the Community - The different
components of a community's social system that interact and
have an impact on the community's health.
Variables: health, family, economic, educational, religious,
welfare, political, recreational, legal, and communication.
E. Identify the Roles and Activities of Community Health Nurse
● Clinician Role or Direct care provider - The nurse is
responsible for providing health care to not only individuals
and families, but also groups and populations in the
community.
● Educator Role - Assesses community members'
knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, practices,
transition stage, and abilities, and delivers health education
based on their knowledge level.
● Advocate Role - Encourage people in the community to
consume the correct foods for good health, take the right
drugs for treatment, and get the right services at the right
time, wherever they are required. They provide enough
information to make necessary health-care decisions, and
they raise community awareness of major health issues.
● Managerial Role - Assesses the community's needs, plans
and organizes to satisfy those needs, directs and controls
the work, and evaluates the progress to ensure that the
goal is met.
● Collaborator Role - Nurses who work in community health
rarely work alone. Clients, other nurses, physicians, social
workers, and community leaders, to name a few, must
collaborate with them.
● Leadership Role - The nurse's role as a leader is to
advise, influence, or persuade others to make changes that
will improve people's health. The fundamental objective of
the leadership role is to employ a change in health policy
based on the health of community members; hence, the
community health nurse becomes a change agent.
● Researcher Role - To solve problems and improve
community health nursing practice, conduct systematic
investigations, data collecting, and analysis. Community
nurses increase the quality of their services and the health
of the community as a result of the research findings.
Note: Study Tasks 1 and 2 for our quiz on November 13, 2021
II. Read on the following topics for our discussion next meeting.
Health Statistics and Epidemiology
A. Tools
1. Demography Sources of Data Population Size Composition Distribution
2. Health Indicators
⮚ Crude Birth Rate
⮚ Crude Death Rate
⮚ Infant Mortality Rate
⮚ Maternal Mortality Rate
⮚ Specific Rates of Mortality
⮚ Leading Causes of Morbidity
⮚ Leading Causes of Mortality\
⮚ Life Expectancy
B. Philippine Health Situation
1. Demographic Profile
2. Health Profile Profile
C. Epidemiology and the Nurse
1. Definitions and Related terms
2. Natural Life History of Disease
3. Epidemiological Triangle
4. Epidemiological Process and Investigations
