Public health nursing (PHN) is looking at and supporting the health of the whole community. PHN takes responsibility for improving population health (Garcia, Schaffer, Schoon, 2014). They work in lots of different areas of government and a variety of community agencies and organizations. PHN use three core functions and ten essential services to care for the communities they service (Garcia, Schaffer, Schoon, 2014).
Compare and Contrast A family care nurse would care for one family or one patient at a time whereas PHN would care for the entire population. A PHN might be more primary preventive while the family care nurse would deal with secondary and tertiary prevention. They could be the same in they both