- 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.
Why community assessment is necessary in nursing?
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