Beyond the Clinic: Expanding Horizons for Community Health Nurses in Pakistan

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Author(s): Saleema Gulzar (Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan), Samina Subzali Vertejee (Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan), Tazeen Saeed Ali (Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan)and Rozina Karmaliani (Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan)
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 16
Source title: Enhancing Client, Family, and Community Health Management: Self, Society, State, Systems, and Spirituality
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Minhaj A. Qidwai (Al-Kawthar University, Karachi, Pakistan & American Institute of Healthcare Quality, Pakistan & Unet Consultants, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-9092-4.ch007

Keywords: Healthcare Administration / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare / Public Health & Healthcare Delivery

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All schools of nursing in Pakistan offer community health nursing as a core course. Unfortunately, there aren't enough avenues open for them to practice CHN due to lack of deployment plan. Despite this there are multiple roles that CHNs are performing and can perform at local and national levels. The need is to duly acknowledge this role within the health care delivery model and there is a need for evidenced based studies to explore the impact of these roles on the health of population at local and national levels. This chapter would serve as a guiding tool to make health care delivery system more responsive to health and developmental needs of the country. Moreover, the chapter gives an insight into how the CHNs are actively engaged in various settings and provide population based services with focus on sustainability.

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