CHN VLOG SCRIPT

(Title Screen) Community health nursing

(VO-EJ)
- Public health, families, and the community.

(Ella)
- Community health nursing is a “practice” and a specialized field of nursing.

(Antonette)
- A Practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge
from nursing, social, and public health sciences.

(Franz)
- Community Health nursing is a nursing specialty focused on public health public
health.

(Shella)
- Nurses or community health nurses integrate community involvement and knowledge
about the entire population with personal clinical understandings of the health
and illness

(Ella)
- Experiences of individuals and families within the population.

Public health nursing in the United States traces back to a nurse named Lillian
Wald who in 1893 established the Henry Street Settlement in New York City and
coined the expression public health nurse.

(EJ)
- public health nurses work within communities and focus on different areas to
improve the overall health of the people within that community.

The public health nurse looks for areas of concern within the community and
assesses and plans ways through which the concerns can be resolved or minimized
some health concerns.

(Tonette)
- A public health nurse may work on our infection control health maintenance
health coaching as well as home care visits for welfare and to provide care to
certain members of the community who may need it.

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WHAT
MAKES
IT
DIFFERENT

(EJ)
- Community health nursing combines primary healthcare and nursing practice in a
community setting.

(Franz)
- In Community health (CH) nurses provide health services, preventive care,
intervention and health education to communities or populations.
 (Shella)
- In the past, public health nurses worked for the government or the public health
department. Their role has since expanded.

(Ella)
- Unlike a nurse who works with patients one-on-one, community health nurses focus
on communities, families, and changing the lives of people. 

(EJ)

CH nurses can have various roles in a community setting. They may provide some or all
of the following:

 Health education. (Shella)

 Community advocacy. (Shella)
 Ensuring a safe and healthy environment. (Tonette)
 Abuse and neglect prevention. (Tonette)
 Policy reform. (Franz)
 Community development. (Franz)

(Tonette)
Community Health nursing is important for the daily living and lifestyle of our
community.

- That’s what CHN is all about (Franz)

- Because a drop of sickness Is a sickness of the whole(Tonette)
- And the healthier the whole, the healthier you are (Shella)
- Because everyone’s health matters (Ella)
- And our micro efforts can cause macro effect to the community (EJ)