Community Health Nursing

SCOPE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

The scope of community health nursing practice is broad and involves the delivery of a continum of preventive health service aimed at enhancing the health of the individual, family, groups and communities. Primary health care is the key component of community health nursing. Depart of community health nursing mould the students to work in collaboration with government and voluntary agencies to provide primary health care in villages, community centres and schools with the focus on physical, biological, social, psychological and environmental health of the people.