PERCEPTIONS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSES, STUDENT NURSES AND CLIENTS TOWARDS PRIMARY PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION IN COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING.
Contributors: University of San Francisco.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Public Health.
Description: Problem. Primary prevention and health promotion are the major focuses of community health nursing (CHN) practice. Decreased health care funding and budget cuts have resulted in reduction of prevention and health promotion services. Many community agencies have reduced services and provide high risk and crisis intervention only. Only those prevention and health promotion services which are most needed may be retained.

Procedure. Twenty-five CHNs, twenty-five student nurses, and one hundred clients were randomly selected. Subjects gave their perceptions of the most important needs in primary prevention of disease and health promotion. Twenty-five CHNs responded to whether or not they believed their professional training adequately covered the components of community health curriculum needed in actual practice.

In order of importance, on a scale of 1-10, participants ranked the most important needs related to parenting, preventive practices, family planning, prevention of chronic diseases, balanced nutrition, problems of addiction, stress, health maintenance, inadequate or excessive food consumption, and dental health.

Curriculum components were communication, cultural diversity, growth and development, interdisciplinary collaboration, patient advocate, research, leadership, quality assurance, health care planning, environmental health, health promotion, systems analysis, physical assessment, and cost effectiveness.

Results. There were no statistically significant differences in the perceptions of CHNs, student nurses, and clients toward the most important needs for services related to balanced nutrition, chronic diseases, parenting, stress, food consumption, and health maintenance.

There was a statistically significant difference among the three groups related to need for family planning, preventive practices, problems of addiction, and dental health.

With the exception of systems analysis, quality assurance, and cost effectiveness, there were no significant differences in the CHNs' responses related to community health curriculum covered in their professional training and needed in actual practice.

Conclusion. CHNs, student nurses, and clients agreed that nutrition, chronic diseases, parenting, stress, food consumption, and health maintenance services are needed in prevention and health promotion.

Perceptions related to the need for family planning, addiction, preventive, and dental services were different.

Findings suggest that nurses are being taught what they need to know related to preventive health care.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-05, Section: B, page: 1512.

Thesis (ED.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 1985.

School code: 6019.