Public health screening activities in programs are also essential in ensuring this level of prevention is ensured. A good example is organized screening programs targeted at the community. The third level of prevention, tertiary prevention, involves bother rehabilitative and therapeutic measures once the person already has the symptoms and signs of the disease. Tertiary prevention has several goals, which include preventing damage and pain that may arise from the disease, slowing down the progression of the disease, preventing the disease from causing complications, giving optimum care to people with signs of the disease, and helping those with the disease to live healthy lives afterwards. A quintessential example of tertiary preventive activities includes treating diabetics to prevent complications that occur as a result of the disease such as liver and kidney failure. Other examples are management of patients with chronic heart disease with therapy and medication, physical and occupational therapy as rehabilitation for patients who suffered from accidents and stroke. Counseling of patients is also a form of tertiary prevention since it is aimed at offering high quality and appropriate psychological care.

The tertiary level of prevention in community health nursing involves modifying the risk factors of a disease to assist the patient lose weight, make modifications...

This is done through health promotion activities, rehabilitation, and counseling of patients to prevent possible adverse outcomes of their disease. For a community health nurse, tertiary prevention is aimed at enhancing the quality of life of the patient (Baker, 1992). This can be done by conducting follow-up examples of the patient to identify potential risk factors and disease progression rates, implementing health service organization changes to improve access to better quality of care, referral of patient to specialist clinics and ensuring control of high-risk sites including tattoo parlors that may be sites for contracting diseases.
References

Baker, J.E.L. (1992). Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention in Reducing Pesticide-Related Illness in Farmers. Journal of Community Health Nursing, 9(4), 245-254. doi: 10.2307/3427201

Flaskerud, J.H. (1992). HIV Disease and Levels of Prevention. Journal of Community Health Nursing, 9(3), 137-150. doi: 10.2307/3427251

Green, M.M. (1971). The Expanded Role of the Public Health Nurse. Canadian Journal of Public Health / Revue Canadienne de Sante'e Publique, 62(2), 147-152. doi: 10.2307/41984635

Ureda, J., & Yates, S. (2005). A SYSTEMS VIEW of HEALTH PROMOTION. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 28(1),…