The nursing care is given for their physical and mental weakness, lack of knowledge and lack of willingness towards the ability to carry out daily activities independently. This activity is done in an effort to improve health, disease prevention, cure, rehabilitation and health care with an emphasis on primary health care (Primary Health Care) to allow each person to reach the ability to live a healthy and productive. These activities are carried out in accordance with the authority, responsibility and the ethics of the nursing profession.
In a working meeting nursing public health explained that the nursing community is an area of nursing that is a combination of nursing and public health with the support of community participation is actively and prioritize health promotion and preventive measures on an ongoing basis without neglecting curative services and rehabilitative completely and comprehensively addressed to individuals, families, groups and society as a unified whole through the nursing process to improve the functioning of human life optimally so as to be independent in health efforts.
Community care is care provided outside an institution that focuses on communities or individuals and families. In the health care community should consider several principles, namely:
1. Benefits
All the action in nursing care should be of great benefit to the community. Intervention or implementation conducted should provide maximum benefit to the community, which means that there is a balance between the benefits and disadvantages.
2. Cooperation
Cooperation with the client for a long time and is to be sustainable as well as cooperation across programs and across sectors.
3. Directly
Nursing care is given directly review and intervention, clients, and their environment, including social, economic and physical health improvement have two key objectives.
4. Justice
Actions taken depend on the capability or capacity of the community itself. In terms of efforts or act according to the ability or capacity of the community.
5 Autonomy
Clients or community gave freedom in selecting or implementing some of the best alternatives in resolving existing health problems.
In conclusion, human beings as the target service or nursing care in nursing practice. As the target clients of nursing practice can be divided into individual, family and community. Nursing aimed at maintaining and improving health and providing assistance through nursing interventions as the basis of its expertise in helping individuals, families, groups and communities in addressing a variety of nursing problems encountered in daily life day.