40th Global Nursing Care Conference

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner

Primary care practitioners are not required in every project, and they are usually too busy to lead such an effort, but they must be involved. Family medicine, with its emphasis on comprehensive care of patients, embraces the concept of care of the community. The basic concepts of COPC were initially implemented in South Africa during the early 1940's by Sidney and Emily Kark with the creation of community health centres. These centres promoted a reorientation of health services at the community level through a unique linkage between individual clinical care and public health.