Community Nursing Matrix

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History of Community Nursing Matrix
Beatrice Williamson
University of Phoenix
Healthy Communities: Theory and Practice
NUR/405
Beth Edwards MSN, FNP-BC
March 21, 2011

History of Community Nursing Matrix
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History of Community Nursing Matrix

Complete the matrix with the following concepts, and relate the concepts to two different periods of time in history and the present time:

• Describe each period briefly. • Clarify the differences during each period with public health nursing and community health nursing. • Describe the key health issues. • Identify community health partnerships used during this period of time. • Describe how Watson’s Theory of Human Transpersonal Caring is related.

| |Historical time period|Nursing role in community|Major health issues |Partnerships used |Watson’s theory |
|Past period 1 |Colonial |The female head of |“Smallpox, yellow |“Early colonial public |“Transpersonal caring |
| |America |household was responsible|fever, cholera, |health efforts included the |seeks to connect with |
| | |in caring for the sick |typhoid, and typhus”|collection of vital |and embrace the spirit|
| |1600-1800 |and in childbirth; |was of grave concern|statistics, improved |or soul of the other |
| | |responsibilities included|(Lancaster & |sanitation, and control of |through the processes |
| | |gathering of herbs to |Stanhope, 2008, p. |any communicable diseases” |of caring and healing |
| | |promote the healing |24). Tuberculosis |(Lancaster &

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