QUALITIES OF COMMUNITY
HEALTH NURSE
Qualities of Community Health
Nursing
1.INTEREST IN COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING.
2. GOOD IPR SKILLS.
3. INTERESTED IN PEOPLE.
4. EMOTIONAL STABILITY.
5. GOOD COMMUNICABILITY.
6. GUIDING & HELPING NATURE.
7. SENSITIVE OBSERVATION.
8. GOOD LISTNER.
9. A FRIENDLY DISPOSITION.
10. INITIATIVENESS.
11. RESOURCEFULNESS.
12. ENDURANCE & PATIENCE.
1. A qualified community health nurse is one
who has undergone basic general nursing,
midwifery training and postbasic education in
community health nursing.
2. A community health nurse must have interest
in people and in understanding human
behavour.
3. Sincerity and ability to empathize are basic
qualities required for a nurse.
4. A well poised nurse has a friendly disposition,
honest, charitable,resourdeful,and cooperative
and takes responsibilities with initiative.
5. Minimum essential skills of a nurse
are observation,
communication,interviewing,and
bedside supportive and technical skills.
6. She must be sympathetic
,empathetic and understanding
7. She must be respectful , tolerant and
patient
8. She must be tactful ,observant and
cooperative
9. She must be able to adjust and work
freely with different situations in the
community.
10. She must appreciate the effort
of all people and correct their
mistakes tactfully.
11. She must create good
interpersonal relationship with
colleagues and other health workers
and clients
12. She must be trustworthy ,
punctual and sincere with his/her
work
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE
Roles of community Health Nurse
A. Client-oriented Roles
1. Caregiver
• Uses the nursing process to provide direct nursing
intervention to individuals, families, or population
groups
2. Educator
• Facilitates learning for positive health behavior change
3. Counselor
• Teaches and assists clients in the use of the problem
solving process
4. Referral Resource
• Links clients to services to meet identified health needs
5. Role Model
Demonstrates desired health-related behaviors
6. Advocate
• Speaks or acts on behalf of clients who
cannot do so for themselves
7. Primary Care Provider
• Provides essential health services to
promote health, prevent illness,
• and deal with existing health problems
8. Case Manager
• Coordinates and directs the selection and
use of health care services to meet
• client needs, maximize resource utilization,
and minimize the expense of care
B. Delivery-oriented Roles
1. Coordinator/Care Manager -Organizes
and integrates services to best meet client
needs in the most efficient manner possible
2. Collaborator - Engages in shared
decision making regarding the nature of
health problems and potential solutions to
them
3. Liaison- Provides and maintains
connections and communication between
clients and health care providers or among
providers
C. Population-oriented Roles
1. Case Finder
Identifies clients with specific health
problems or conditions
Geared toward awareness of populationlevel problems
2. Leader
Influences clients and others to take action
regarding identified health problems
3. Change Agent
Initiates and facilitates change in
individual or client behaviors or conditions
or those affecting population groups
4. Community Developer
Mobilizes residents and other segments of
the population to take action regarding
identified community health problems or
issues
5. Coalition Builder
Promotes the development and
maintenance of alliances of individuals or
groups of people to address a specific
health issue
6. Researcher
Conducts studies to explain health-related
phenomena and to evaluate the
effectiveness of interventions to control
them
Responsibilities of community health nurse
1. Planning ,identifying ,execution and
evaluation of care
2. Providing ,comprehensive care to the
individuals , families , and groups by
teaching , counselling and guidance
3. Demonstrates and teaches skilled
nursing care to family members of
sick , chronically ill in the home
4. Cares for the chronically ill,
handicapped and disabled in the
community
5. Provides assistance to the families in
improving environmental conditions
6. Help the families in the adjustment of
social ,emotional aspects of health.
7. Provides preventive health care services
like immunization , supplementary
nutrition etc
8. Renders treatment and follow up care of
mentally ill and elderly people as both of
these groups are intended to become
increasingly community based rather than
which hospital based .
9. Development and utilization of other
branches of health for welfare of
community
10. Organizing ,planned group classes
regarding the sanitation ,nutrition, child
care family welfare services and parent
craft to various members in the
community.
11. Conducts epidemiological investigations
in the field of communicable diseases and
leprosy etc
12.Coordinates her work with other
members of health team working in the
community.
13. She revises the plans ,programmes in
her area and collects the vital statistics
,conducts research ton study the existing
health problems ,evaluates effectiveness of
various health problems
14. She trains and conducts orientation
and in-service training classes in her
area to nursing students and other
nursing staffs
15. She act as a coordinator between
individuals and community
16. She act as a consultant and talks on
behalf of individual or family with
village leaders and other members of the
health team
17. She plans the budget ,get the
equipment required ,organizes primary
health centre and to associated health
centres
18. She manages various
programmes ad campaigns in her
area
19. She acts as administrator at
different levels of community health
nursing services to evaluate and puts
all possible trails into practice to
improve quality and quantity of care
to the total community .
20. Supervise the work of MPHW,
health visitors and dias.
SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE
MCH SERVICES
SCHOOL HEALTH
SERVICES
Specialised
responsibilities
GERIATRIC
SERVICES
OCCUPATIONAL
SERVICES
IMMUNIZATION
SERVICES
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