Community health nursing can play an important role in conducting community needs assessments that provide critical data upon which programming, planning, and evaluation should be based.
The community health services developed for any given community should be planned with the specific needs of the community residents in mind.
A community needs survey is one method that should be periodically employed to ascertain the specific needs and concerns of community residents.
Nursing conceptual models developed by CHNs are very appropriate to the assessment of all aspects of community life related to health and well-being.
Comprehensive community needs surveys should include assessment of environmental, psychosocial, and physiological aspects of health as well as indicators of health-related behaviors in the population.
