 Nightingale’s Environment Theory:

 Emphasized prevention care.

 Washing hands

 Sterilizing instruments

 Health Belief Model

 Assumes that preventive health behaviors are taken primarily for

the purpose of avoiding disease.

 Describes the likelihood of taking an action to avoid disease based

on:

 Susceptibility, seriousness, and threat of disease

 Modifying factors

 Demographics

 Knowledge level

 Age

 Race

 Cues to action

 Media

 Disease effect on ppl

 Recommendations from health care professionals

 Perceived benefits minus perceived barriers to taking action

 Goals of community health nursing:

 Promote, preserve, and maintain health of populations by delivery

of services to individuals, families, and groups to influence

community health

 Who is the client in community health nursing?

 The community or population

 BOTH COMMUNITY ORIENTED NURSING AND COMMUNITY

BASED NURSING

 Public Health Nursing

 Also known as Community-Oriented Nursing

 Population focused

 Goal:

 Promoting health

 Preventing disease

 No illness cares

 Key Principles:

 Emphasize primary prevention