Population-based nursing can be defined as a style of nursing that is tailored t

Population-based nursing can be defined as a style of nursing that is tailored to a specific group of people, while community-based nursing involves catering nursing practice toward the people within a specific geographic location. Population-based nursing can be specialized towards people of the same ethnicity, age, diagnosis, religion, risk factor, and so on (Curley, 2019). Community-based nursing typically deals with a smaller geographic location, where diagnoses, ages, and other such population differences may occur, and tends to focus on issues in health literacy and general health education processes (Sensenig, 2022).
The main difference between the two is the differences in the people that which they serve. Population-based nursing most often involves people who have similarities beyond actual geographic location, so education and care can be more similar and specialized at the same time. Community-based nursing can involve various and more general topics of education and care, but the patients are typically closer geographically. Community-based nursing may be less specialized, but involves important cares that tend to affect more people. Population-based care is more specific, and reaches a wider physical area of patients. Both involve catering different and various types of people, but the scale to which the education and care differ, and the specificity of this care does as well.