History Of Community Nursing

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Running head: Public Health Nursing

History of Community Nursing matrix Hazel Bringas NUR/405 Health Communities: Theory and Practice January 05, 2012

Henrietta N. Nwamu, RN, PHN, MSN/Ed

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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 |1800’s: |The nursing role in the |The major health |According to Stanhope and |According to Watson, |
| |According to Stanhope |community in the early |issues during the |Lancaster, 2008 The |Caring can be |
| |and Lancaster, 2008, |1800’s was, women in the |1800’s, were the |partnership used in the |effectively |
| |In the early years of|family and the community |inefficient sewage |1800’s are: |demonstrated and |
| |America’s settlement, |cared for the sick in |system led to the | |practiced only |
| |as in Europe, |their own homes. In the |outspread of |1812 – Sister of Mercy, |interpersonally. In |
| |the care of the sick |mid 1800’s, district |infectious
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