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Role Of Community Health Nurse In Earthquake Affected Areas, Saleema Aziz Gulzar, Zahid Ali Faheem, Rozina Karim Somani The Aga Khan University

Role Of Community Health Nurse In Earthquake Affected Areas, Saleema Aziz Gulzar, Zahid Ali Faheem, Rozina Karim Somani

School of Nursing & Midwifery

The role of Community Health Nurses (CHNs) outside the traditional hospital setting is meant to provide and promote the health care needs of the community. Such nurses can play a substantial role in the community setting including emergencies like disasters. This became evident after the earthquake of October 8, 2005 in Pakistan. The objective was to address the issues, faced by primary healthcare providers working in earthquake-affected areas focusing on participatory approach. The experience of the interventions done by CHN by a guided frame work (assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation components) is described. Issues identified by CHN included: lack of ...