Peran Perawat Dalam Menurunkan IMR Dan MMR Melalui Desa Siaga

The Indonesian infant mortality rates and maternal mortality rates that still high, and also the position of Indonesia islands in a very danger area, makes the community have to be aware in every aspect and ready to for catastrophe that every time can happen. For that reason the Indonesian government starts to mobilize the community and empower them by encouraging to develop”desa siaga' or “prepared villages” in every village before 2008. Nurses as the grass rotes in the health service that work 24 hours can utilize for successful of this program. Nurses with their principles of community intervention: benefit, autonomy, and equality have to apply their roles as care provider, educator, manager, counselor, advocate, and researcher