Beyond the clinic: Expanding horizons for community health nurses in Pakistan

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.