VARIOUS ROLES OF DPHNO..

2. DPHNO
M.SC.(N) Ist YEAR

3. Introduction :-
• The role of District Public Health Nurses (DPHN)
and District Public Health Nurse Officers
(DPHNOs) as supervisors of the Public Health
nursing and midwifery staff in a district was
investigated. Public health nurses integrate
community involvement and knowledge about the
entire population with personal, clinical
understandings of the health and illness experiences
of individuals and families within the population.

4. Definition
• District Public Health Nurses OR District Public
Health Nursing Officers The District Public
Health Nurses (DPHNs) are class III employees,
originally part of the Maternal and Child Health
division of Department of health.

5. Public Health Nurse Skills and Qualifications
• Verbal Communication,
• Health Promotion
• Maintenance,
• Listening
• Quality Management, Energy Level,
Integrity, Infection Control,
• Informing Others, Nursing Skills, Medical
Teamwork
• Multi-tasking

6. • Evaluating health trends and risk factors of
population groups and helping to determine
priorities for targeted interventions.
• Working with communities or specific
population groups within the community to
develop public policy and targeted health

7. • promotion and disease prevention activities.
• Participating in assessing and evaluating
health care services to ensure that people are
informed of available programs and services
and assisted in the utilization of those
services.

8. • Providing essential input to interdisciplinary
programs that monitor, anticipate, and
respond to public health problems in
population groups.

9. • Providing health education, care
management, and primary care to individuals
and families who are members of vulnerable
population and high-risk groups.
• Public health nurses provide a critical linkage
between epidemiological data and clinical
understanding of health and illness as it is
experienced in peoples’ lives.

10. Public Health Nurse Job Duties:
• Serves patients by visiting homes; determining
patient and family needs; developing health care
plans; providing nursing services and treatments;
referring patients with social and emotional
problems to other community agencies.
• Helps the community health care team by
coordinating assessment, planning, and providing of
needed health and related services; participating in
case conferences with physicians, hospital and
rehabilitative personnel, and representative of other
agencies.

11. • Supervisory responsibilities
• Educational responsibly
• Carrying out
Preventive
Promotive curative
 rehabilitative care

12. SUPERVISORY RESONSIBILTIES
• Public health nurse supervisor, guides and
supervises the functions of public health
nurses , health workers , working in her
assigned field She is responsible

13. • Educational responsibly:-
• Organize the in-service education programe
for all the nursing staff.
• Initiate and assist in planning and organizing
the orientation programms for the new
staff.
• Participate in community health field
experience organized for nursing students of
school or college

14. • Suggest in selection of area for practical
experience.
• Provide facilities and resources to students
and staff
• Guide students during field experience.
• Help to supervise and guide the traditional
birth attendants (TBAS).

15. • Keep her knowledge updated by reading
attending professional seminar and meeting
etc.
• Assisting in development of the standard of
health care with the accepted philosophy,
objectives and health policies.
• Assisting in the preparation of budget for the
community health department.

16. • Utilize the budget allotted to the department
(community)
• Supervision and guidance of PHN
/LHV/FHW/MHW working in her field.
• Organizing educational programmes for the
community members including school
children, RCH group or other interested /
targeted groups in her area.

17. • Supervision of records / reports prepared by
health workers working under her
jurisdiction.
• Assisting the DPHN /DPHNO for the
preparation of job description and
assignment of responsibilities for other
community health workers.

18. Nursing Adviser
• This is the post in the medical division of
directorate general of health services.The
nursing adviser is directly responsible to the
deputy director general (medical) ,The
nursing adviser is assisted by nursing officer
and support staff for all her/his work.

19. • Advices the DGHS, the ministry health family
welfare as well as other ministries,
departments e.g. railways, labor, Delhi

20. THANK YOU