Comparison Between Community Health Nursing and Hospital /Clinical Nursing
AREA OF DIFFERENCE HOSPITAL/CLINICAL
1. Setting/Place of Practice
and activities
2. Types of patients seen
3. Scope of concern/Range
of service provided
4. Priority concern
5. Unit of focus of care
6. Ultimate goal
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
NURSING
Hospital wards, special Outside of the hospital, in the
clinical units in hospital. community, home, school, health
center, place of work ( industrial
establishments, farms, market etc.)
outpatient clinics.
Mostly sick people; maybe Varied patients, representing total
limited to one group of health spectrum from the healthy to
patients like maternity sick to recovering from disease to
cases, depending on clinical terminally ill to dying.
area of practice
Mostly curative and Total care, whole range of service-
rehabilitative care. health promotion, disease
prevention, curative care,
rehabilitative care, development of
self- reliance capabilities in health
care.
Comfort and care during Promotion and maintenance of
illness, recovery from health, prevention of disease.
disease
Individual patient The family, the population groups,
the whole community
Maximum comfort, patient Effective coping and self- reliance
independence ( self - care), for families and the whole
recovery from disease, community in health care
peaceful/dignified death for
terminal cases