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Safety, comfort, and hygiene are fundamental nursing responsibilities that protect patients from injury, pain, infection, impaired mobility, skin breakdown, sensory problems, and substance-related harm. Nursing care emphasizes risk recognition, prevention, appropriate pain management, personal hygiene, safe movement, skin protection, support for sensory function, and recognition of substance misuse while promoting comfort, dignity, independence, and safety. 1️⃣ Patient Safety

Primary Health Care provides accessible, equitable, community-based, preventive, and continuing services through community participation, intersectoral collaboration, appropriate technology, and an organized health workforce. Community Health Nursing applies PHC principles through maternal-child health, nutrition, oral health, environmental sanitation, vital and health statistics, occupational health, and health education. 1️⃣ Primary Health Care: Definition & Principles 🌱 P

Care of older persons focuses on healthy aging, preservation of functional ability, chronic-disease management, psychosocial well-being, medication safety, prevention of falls and disability, and protection from neglect or abuse. Community nurses assess physical, cognitive, emotional, social, environmental, and caregiver needs while supporting independence, dignity, continuity of care, and timely referral. 1️⃣ Healthy Aging & Needs of Older Persons 👴 Healthy Aging 🔷 Healthy

Non-communicable diseases are long-duration conditions shaped by behavioral, metabolic, environmental, genetic, and social factors. Community Health Nursing emphasizes risk reduction, screening, early diagnosis, treatment adherence, medication safety, complication prevention, referral, rehabilitation, and long-term follow-up. Major community priorities include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and chronic kidney disease. 1️⃣ NCD B

Community Health Nursing combines nursing and public-health practice to improve the health of individuals, families, groups, and populations. It emphasizes prevention, equity, community participation, continuity of care, research, accurate records and reports, and use of health information for planning and evaluation. Community nurses apply the nursing process in homes and communities while coordinating services, managing resources, using research evidence, and maintaining re

Communicable Disease Nursing emphasizes early recognition, diagnostics, treatment support, infection prevention, surveillance, contact management, reporting, and community control. Content is organized for Philippine community-health nursing review, with disease-specific treatment, medication safety, prevention, and CHN responsibilities. 1️⃣ Dengue 🦟 Transmission/Phases 🔷 Identify agent + reservoir 🔷 Define major transmission route 🔷 Recognize portal of entry/exit 🔷 Incu

Communicable Disease Nursing emphasizes early recognition, diagnostics, treatment support, infection prevention, surveillance, contact management, reporting, and community control. Content is organized for Philippine community-health nursing review, with disease-specific treatment, medication safety, prevention, and CHN responsibilities. 1️⃣ General Principles & Chain of Infection 🦠 Infection Concepts 🔷 Define disease/control concept 🔷 Identify transmission + risks 🔷 Reco

Basic Nursing Skills provide the foundation for systematic, safe, and patient-centered nursing care. The nursing process organizes clinical decision-making, admission and discharge procedures support safe transitions and continuity of care, and accurate vital-sign assessment helps nurses recognize physiologic changes early. Nursing care requires correct technique, documentation, patient education, reassessment, and age-appropriate interpretation, including infant and pediatri

Community Health Nursing combines nursing practice, public health, epidemiology, health promotion, disease prevention, and population-based care. In the Philippine setting, community nurses work within a system shaped by the Department of Health (DOH), local government units (LGUs), Universal Health Care reforms, national health plans, surveillance systems, and public-health legislation. Nursing responsibilities include community assessment, health education, referral, survei

Fluids and electrolytes maintain circulation, cellular function, neuromuscular activity, acid-base balance, and homeostasis. Imbalances may result from fluid loss, illness, organ dysfunction, medications, or IV therapy. Nursing care focuses on fluid assessment, safe replacement, IV therapy, electrolyte monitoring, ABG interpretation, and early recognition of life-threatening changes. 1️⃣ Body Fluid Compartments & Distribution 💧 Total Body Water 🔷 Define fluid/therapy purpos

Basic psychosocial needs support emotional security, relationships, identity, spirituality, sexuality, self-worth, coping, and adaptation to loss or crisis. Changes in health can threaten safety, belonging, body image, self-concept, and meaning, while grief, sensory deprivation, and crisis may significantly affect functioning. Nursing care focuses on therapeutic support, dignity, coping, healthy relationships, spiritual and sexual well-being, grief support, and timely crisis

Basic psychosocial needs support emotional security, relationships, identity, spirituality, sexuality, self-worth, coping, and adaptation to loss or crisis. Changes in health can threaten safety, belonging, body image, self-concept, and meaning, while grief, sensory deprivation, and crisis may significantly affect functioning. Nursing care focuses on therapeutic support, dignity, coping, healthy relationships, spiritual and sexual well-being, grief support, and timely crisis

Basic physiological needs are essential for maintaining life, homeostasis, energy, tissue function, and normal elimination. Adequate oxygenation, nutrition, sleep, fluid and electrolyte balance, and urinary and bowel elimination allow body systems to function effectively. Nursing care focuses on early recognition of imbalance, maintenance of physiologic stability, prevention of complications, restoration of normal function, and patient education that supports safe self-care.

Interactive processes involve the therapeutic exchange of information, knowledge, feelings, and professional support between nurses, clients, families, and the healthcare team. Effective nursing interaction depends on a purposeful nurse–client relationship, communication, teaching–learning, accurate documentation, and therapeutic use of self. These processes build trust, improve participation, maintain continuity of care, and promote safe, ethical, person-centered nursing pra

Health and illness behavior describes how individuals experience, interpret, and respond to health changes throughout life. Health reflects biological, psychological, social, cultural, spiritual, developmental, and environmental influences. Nursing care emphasizes holistic assessment, risk reduction, adaptation, coping, health promotion, and developmentally appropriate care across the life span. 1️⃣ Holistic Nature of Man 🧠 Whole-Person Concept 🔷 Person = biological + psych

Cognitive disorders involve decline in memory, thinking, attention, and executive function, affecting independence and daily functioning. Major disorders include delirium and dementia, with key exam focus on acute vs chronic onset, reversibility, causes, safety, and nursing care. These conditions are common in older adults and require early recognition, monitoring, and supportive care. 1️⃣ Overview of Cognitive Disorders 🧠 Core Pattern 🔷 Cognitive disorders → decline in mem

Disruptive behavior disorders involve persistent patterns of uncooperative, defiant, aggressive, or rule-breaking behavior that impair functioning at home, school, and in relationships. These include Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Conduct Disorder (CD), and related impulse-control disorders. Early intervention is critical to prevent progression into antisocial behavior, substance use, and legal issues. Nursing care focuses on safety, behavior management, structure, and

Neurodevelopmental disorders are conditions that begin in childhood and affect brain development, leading to impairments in cognition, communication, behavior, and social functioning. These include autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), intellectual disability, and communication disorders. Early identification and structured interventions are critical to improving outcomes. Nurses focus on assessment, safety, behavior support, family

Somatic symptom illness involves physical complaints or health concerns strongly influenced by psychological distress, anxiety, and maladaptive interpretation of bodily sensations. Symptoms are experienced as real by the client and are not intentionally produced, making validation, safety assessment, and nonjudgmental care essential. Nurses play key roles in ruling out urgent medical problems, reducing unnecessary reinforcement of symptoms, promoting coping skills, supporting

Eating disorders are serious psychiatric conditions involving disturbed eating behaviors, distorted body image, and maladaptive weight control, leading to life-threatening medical complications. They commonly affect adolescents and young adults but can occur at any age. Key disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, with high exam focus on refeeding syndrome, electrolyte imbalance, cardiac risk, and therapeutic communication. 1️⃣ Core Feat