Population health
Focuses on improving overall community health by addressing social, economic, and
environmental conditions to reduce health disparities.
Public Health Nursing
Promotes and protects population health, prevents disease, promotes health,
addresses social justice, and involves policy development, community education,
and advocacy.
Community Health Nursing
Works to improve community health by working with individuals, families, and
groups, providing direct care, education, and support for health initiatives.
School Nursing
Promotes health and safety in schools, supports student health, manages chronic
conditions, and provides health education and emergency care.
Occupational Health Nursing
Protects workers' health and safety, prevents workplace injuries and illnesses, and
conducts workplace health assessments and safety training.
Home Health Nursing
Provides care in patients' homes, promotes independence, manages chronic
conditions, and offers direct patient care, education, and support.
Core functions of public health
Include assessment (health data collection and analysis), policy development, and
assurance (providing assurances to the community for health) among others.
Mission of public health
generate organized community efforts to address the public interest in health by
applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health
Community-based nursing
Focuses on managing acute and chronic conditions, providing illness care across the
lifespan, and offering care where people live, work, and attend school.
Community-oriented nursing
Aims to prevent disease and disability, promote health, and provide health care to
individuals, families, and groups in the community.
Public health nursing practice
Aims to prevent disease and disability, protect and promote the community's health
as a whole, and focuses on the community's health status and associated factors.
ADPIE (nursing process) to community setting
Assessment: Identify health needs of the community.
Collect and analyze community health data.
Diagnosis: Identify community health problems.
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