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Community health promotion nursing practice
1Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
ANS. Advances in Nursing Science
|May 22, 1998
Summary
Community nursing practice must evolve by viewing community as a relational experience, not just a context or client. This shift enables health promotion that honors diverse community experiences and power dynamics.
Area of Science:
- Community Health Nursing
- Health Promotion Theory
- Sociology of Health
Background:
- Evolving definitions of community necessitate re-examining community nursing practice.
- Current nursing definitions of community (context/resource, client) shape practice.
- Health promotion requires a focus on community as a relational experience.
Purpose of the Study:
- To critically explore how meanings of community influence community nursing practice.
- To postulate how definitions of community impact community health promotion.
- To propose new patterns for community health promotion nursing practice.
Main Methods:
- Critical analysis of community definitions in nursing literature.
- Exploration of the relationship between community conceptualizations and practice.
- Development of a new practice model for community health promotion.
Main Results:
- Common definitions of community as context/resource and client influence nursing practice.
- A relational understanding of community is crucial for effective health promotion.
- New practice patterns are needed to honor community experiences and power relations.
Conclusions:
- Shifting focus to community as a relational experience is vital for health promotion.
- A new model of community health promotion nursing practice is proposed.
- This model integrates critical reflection, dialogue, pattern recognition, and action.