1. Public health area dedicated to the care of the resident population in a specific community by a professional nursing group that will work on local needs to implement health promotion, prevention and care strategies that positively impact individual patients , families and the community as a whole.
Etymology: On the one hand, nursing, by medieval Latin infirmariais built on the adjective infirmusfrom sick, marked by the prefix in-as a privative-negative conception, and firmuswhich refers to ‘firm’, conjugated with the suffix -ería, due to the scope of performance. + Community, formed based on the word community, by the forms of Latin communĭtas, communĭtātisassociated to communisfrom ‘common’, given by the prefix com-in the sense of ‘meeting’, ‘together’, and muniswhich refers to ‘pact’, ‘agreement’, ‘obligation’, the suffix -tās, -ātisdue to quality, the suffix -aria, in Latin -arius, regarding the adjective in associative property. The idea of community is a calco-adaptation of the Greek term κοινότης (koinótēs).
Grammatical category: noun fem.
in syllables: en-fer-me-rí-a + de + co-mu-ni-ta-ria.
Community nursing
The concept of community nursing is one that is applied to the type of nursing dedicated to the care and prevention not only of the health of the individual, but also of the family and, especially, of the community. Community nursing is an important branch of science since it has to do with the passage and establishment of habits, behaviors and care that not only take care of the health of a person in a specific way, but also involve the maintenance of a safe community environment. and healthy for all its members.
Community nursing, as its name suggests, deals with issues related to health in the community. Thus, it is much more comprehensive than individual nursing since it implies benefits for a broader population group. When we talk about community nursing, then we refer to the work that health professionals carry out to ensure that, for example, certain diseases and viruses do not spread in the community, that hygiene in habitable areas is maintained, that family health within of the private space is always ensured, etc.
In this sense, we can say that community nursing has a lot to do with pedagogy, since it involves some teaching and transmission of knowledge to those people who are part of a certain society. Thus, unlike what can happen with other forms of nursing, community nursing works directly with the community, transmitting information, data, public campaigns, habits and customs that must be adopted to obtain deeper and more effective results.
Thus, by contributing to raising awareness about the importance of caring for the environment, family health, reproductive health, and habits that contribute to health, community nursing becomes something extremely necessary for a society or community achieves the best possible levels of sanitation and health.
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