Chapter 7 COMMUNITY-BASED CARE
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
Empowerment is an important issue in community health nursing and is about improving community and client control over issues affecting them. The community health nurse can create a climate for empowerment by enabling access to information and resources, as well as helping communities and clients reach decisions that are appropriate for them. The focus is on community and client choice and autonomy, allowing communities and clients to make their own informed decisions.
Examples of community health programs are:
• Sexual health clinics — clinical and educative services dealing with all matters relating to sexual and reproductive health, including testing for, and treatment of, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy testing and Pap smears
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