Public Health Role In Community Nursing

CONCEPT 3 –ROLE OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE IN PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS
This module is taken from module 6
INTRODUCTION - ROLE OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE IN PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS
Public health nursing is a subset of community health nursing. It is a type nursing care that takes place outside the hospital setting and it is preventive in nature. It aims at improving the health of the whole community. The goals of public health practice include prevention and control of diseases in different settings such as the working place, schools homes, communities and market places. Public health practice aims at larger group of people rather than an individual.
The public health nurse identifies the priorities

In such situation, family members are screened and treated. The community is protected as well. We also make sure that resources and our services are available and accessible to the population.
CONCEPT 4 – WORLD HEALTH STATISTICS
This concept is taken from module 9
INTRODUCTION - WORLD HEALTH STATISTICS
Health statistics is the sequence of data that describes and enumerates events, services, resources, behaviors, and cost related to diseases, health and health services. The data generated is derived from medical records, administrative documents or surveys.
Vital statistics is inclusive in part of health statistics and is presented in various ways like ratios, proportion and rate.
Birth and death certificate is not the only thing under vital statistics but all data that has to do with the description of life and the phenomenon that affect it.
Every public health agency deals with an organized approach to the collection, analysis, use and distribution of the information that are contained in vital statistics.
If vital statistics is properly used, it strengthens every part of the organization. Maternal and child health program, environmental health program, communicable disease control, etc. are all influenced by vital

It is apparent that meaningful public health programs could be planned, implemented, monitored and evaluated with the use of vital statistics.
SOCIAL CONCEPT - WORLD HEALTH STATISTICS
The society can attain health for all if vital data is usually made use of. The material of statistics should be properly organized to give a desired result for community health.
The society should be aware that every information that they give the health worker will be made use of. APPLICATION IN MY JOB - WORLD HEALTH STATISTICS
In my institution, there is a department called health information department. This department collates the total number of clients seen daily. These includes total number of patients treated, total number of babies immunized, total number of women that came for family planning, total number of school children seen, etc. At the end of each month, they sum up the total number of activities that came up for the month.
The health information department also collates the total number of school visits made, and hospital visits since I work in a primary health care