The basic principle in Community Health Nursing Care is as follows:
- The family is the primary unit in the ministry of public health.
- Targets consist of, individuals, families, groups and communities.
- Health nurse, working "with" the public, and not work "to" public.
- Nursing care that is given more emphasis on promotion and prevention efforts by not forgetting the curative and rehabilitative.
- Basic primary health care services is a problem-solving approach, as outlined in the nursing process.
- The main activities of society is health care in the community, and not in the hospital.
- The patient is the community as a whole, the sick and the healthy.
- Public health care is concerned with the development of healthy behavior.
- The purpose of public health care, are increasing functions of life so as to improve the health optimally.
- Public health nurses do not work alone but work in a team.
- Most of the time of a public health nurse used for activities that improve health, disease prevention, serve a healthy society or a sick, sick people who do not go to health centers, patients who had just returned from the hospital.
- Home visite is very important.
- Health education is the main activity.
- Health care services society, must refer to the existing health care system.
- Implementation of nursing care performed in the clinic health care institutions, institutions such as schools, homes, and others in which the family as a unit of service.
