1. Community Health Nursing is an umbrella term to include many
different types of nurses within the community health arena.
Nurses within the community health world are educated on
public health concepts to care for groups of people and groups
of culturally diverse populations along with other educational
preparedness. There is a population-focused kind of care that
involves using the nursing process. The implementation of
these health programs and services requires this to happen on
the educational level of the group, individual, or population that
you are directing care for.
A large number of nurses are employed in Home Health Care
providing home health care to individuals who are ill.
Community mental health provides care to individuals with
mental health illnesses and/or substance abuse. Correctional
nonhospital nursing provides care within the correctional
facility. Hospice care for patients and families dealing with
end-of-life issues. Occupational health ensures the safety and
health of all people in the workplace through research and
prevention. Community health programs that are in your local
and rural health departments promoting health prevent illnesses,
injury, and premature death. School nursing brings education,
health promotion, and preventative care to children in the
school settings to include Colleges and Universities. State,
local, community, and rural health departments are utilized by
the population to receive immunizations, breastfeeding classes,
wellness classes, and child health classes along with education
associated with wellness promotion and disease prevention.
Another focus of community health is that of Global or World
Health. This is a focus of diseases such at tuberculosis,
anthrax, covid19, measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, among
many other diseases. The National Center of Infectious
Diseases helps with preventing illness, disability, and death
caused by infectious diseases in the United States and around

2. the World. The departments that fall under this category are the
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory disease
Immunization program, National Center for Emerging and
Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, National Center for HIV/AIDS,
Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB prevention. These programs
provide leadership in preventing and controlling human
immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome(HIV/AIDS), viral hepatitis, STD’s, and TB (Maurer,
F. & Smith, C., 2013).
The population that is served in community health are of a wide
variety of ages populations, ethnicities, educational
backgrounds, and races. A large portion of the population
community health serves are those that fall below the poverty
level and would qualify for a number of governmental programs
such as food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, social security, low-
income housing, CHIP, WIC, and TANIF benefits. These
programs are government-funded (paid by the taxpayers). There
is a rising number of uninsured due to a few things:
Strict eligibility requirements from the insurance companies.
The rising cost of private health insurance.
The Affordable Care Act, 2010 was created to help expand
health coverage to the 32 million uninsured it was also an
attempt to improve healthcare services which controlling cost
(Maurer, F. & Smith, C., 2013).
Overall Community Health is a way to serve the community in a
wide variety of ways for a wide variety of populations such as
the elderly, people of different ethnicities, educational
backgrounds, and races. A large portion of the population
community health serves are those that fall below the poverty

3. level and would qualify for a number of governmental programs
such as food stamps, Medicaid, medicare, social security, low-
income housing, and TANIF benefits. These programs are
government-funded (Florida Health Miami Dade County, 2020).
References:
Maurer, F. & Smith, C. (2013).
The United States Healthcare System
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Florida Health Miami Dade County (2020).
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Community health nursing is a discipline that promotes wellness
and protects the community from illness or injury with the
progressive and new scientific methods of making health better.
This practice considers the different ethnicities and social
classes of the people they help to approach them the right way
and with the right mindset to help them (McElroy et al., 2020).
The community in which they practice benefits the specific
group of people who live in a particular location and share
similar or different cultures and beliefs. The clients of a
community health nurse include its community which consists
of individuals of all ages, cultures, and belief systems.
Community health nurses not only help the entire community in

4. general but also individuals and families at large. In faith-based
settings and organizations, community health nurses play an
essential role in helping those in need, same way as those in
homeless shelters and can therefore not afford the medication or
care that the rest of the people can (Clark, 2015). Additionally,
community health nurses serve the elderly population who need
personalized care but cannot be hospitalized for various reasons
and still live in their home's comfort. Also, the chronically ill
and those with terminal illnesses but cannot afford
hospitalization or are not covered by medical insurance are also
in dire need of the services offered by community health nurses
who deliver such services to them. In addition, schools and
clinics that are not allocated enough finances to hire enough
personnel to monitor their health are aided by community health
nurses who live to improve the livelihood of the people who
live in their community and ensure that they are at their
optimum health.
The elderly population is eligible for primary Medicare, which
covers hospital insurance and supplemental security income,
which is given if the elderly person got their social security
benefits from non-well-paying jobs. Also, veterans who are
retired or are injured from their time in war are eligible for the
department of veteran affairs. This department offers
compensation for disabilities, pension, and much more.
However, some in need families are not eligible as much as the
elderly or veterans, but the government can help them, but only
if they are citizens of the United States legally and applied for
help in their right residential state.
Many organizations are held responsible for ensuring that senior
citizens are well provided for, including Alzheimer’s
Association for the elderly living with Alzheimer’s and the Area
Agency on Ageing, present in all fifty states in America. It
ensures that all the questions about how to provide for them and
if the situation arises when they cannot help can point you in

5. the right direction. The United States Department of Veterans
Affairs keeps a record of the war heroes and assists those who
come out of the war scathed, whether physically or mentally,
and help with their day-to-day care while adjusting to the world.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration provides good quality and treats drug abuse-
related illnesses, especially to homeless clients who have
nowhere to go.
In conclusion, community health nurses are a necessity in our
communities and are of much help in many different situations.
Nurses are the foundation of any successful social healthcare
program and instrumental in implementing any private or
government-funded universal health plan(Fooladi, 2015). While
the government reaches out to help those in need, the
community still needs those who are nearer to them, like the
nurses, to help as they are closer to home.
References
Clark, M. J. (2015). Community health nursing. Prentice Hall.
Fooladi M. M. (2015). The Role of Nurses in Community
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