Community Health Nursing (Nursing): Community Health Nursing-II

Course Description:

This course will focus on the role of community health Nurses in providing family centered care and basic concepts of Reproductive Health for male and female through emphasis on obstetrics, gynecological morbidities, infertility, family planning, adolescent related health problems, immunization, tropical disease, abortions, reproductive health indicators, and related health education.

Course Objectives:

By the completion of this course, learners will be able to:

1. Discuss the role of a nurse and other health team members in providing reproductive health care.
2. Discuss attitudes and practices towards marriage, birth, family planning, communicable diseases and immunization
3. Integration of reproductive health and its relationship to poverty, access and quality of care. Issues related to maternal morbidity and mortality.
4. Discuss the maternal and child health care programs in Pakistan and integrate the relevant concepts into nursing practice.
5. Discuss the common communicable and tropical disease in Pakistan and integrate the relevant concepts into nursing practice.
6. Provide family centered care with focus on mother and child.
7. Begin to demonstrate the legal and ethical nursing practice while providing care to the family.

Identify the role of the individual and the family in the promotion and maintenance of health and prevention of disease.