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Community Health Nursing (Nursing): Community Health Nursing-III

Community health nurses, also known as public health nurses, work to improve the health of a population and reduce disease and disability. This holistic approach to healthcare draws on knowledge of nursing, social sciences, and public health.

Course Description

This course enhances the knowledge and skills required for advanced nursing practice in community settings. It will help the learner to develop his/her ability to work with communities by utilizing nursing process and epidemiological concepts

Course Objectives

By the end of this course the learners will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the role of the community health nurse as a practitioner, researcher, educator and manager while participating in the health care of the community.
  2. Participate in planning, implementing, and evaluating the Health / Developmental project with the community.
  3. Utilize the concepts of Primary Health Care, Health Promotion, Epidemiology and Planning cycle in health/ development project in community setting.

UNIT 1

REVIEW HEALTH TRANSITION AND GLOBAL HEALTH

 

In this unit learners will be introduced to the concepts of the demography and health transition. They will integrate the concepts of the double burden of diseases and the challenges faced by the Community Health Nurse. Further the learners will be given the opportunity to look at the factors affecting health status of Pakistan by integrating the epidemiological concepts, to be able to prevent and control the diseases or health phenomena and monitor the factors by using health surveillance.

OBJECTIVES:

By the end of the unit the learners will be able
    1. Discuss the International health problems including demographic, health, and epidemiological transitions.
    2. Discuss the difference between developed and developing countries population pyramid and double burden of diseases.
    3. Discuss the important health statistics of Pakistan.
    4. Compare the different phases of natural history of disease transmission.
    5. Integrate epidemiological designs in to community health nursing practice.

Discuss the measures of diseases frequency and disease occurrence.

UNIT 2

DIVERSITY IN CHN ROLE

In this unit the diverse role of a community health nurse will be discussed in various health care setting. In addition they will also be given the opportunity to see the role of CHN in Pakistan and other countries.

OBJECTIVES:

By the end of the unit the learners will be able to
  1. Review the concepts of Primary Health Care (PHC).
  2. Descried the concept of health promotion and its significance.
  3. Learn the concepts of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD).
  4. Discuss the child to child health care approach for health promotion.
  5. Discuss the role of nurse in school health
  6. Describe the common global & national environment health issue.
  7. Identify the role of nurses to deal with environment health problems.
  8. Discuss the occupational health and role of occupational health towards health promotion.
  1. Discuss the management of disaster in community settings.
  2. Explore   the   role   of   Community   Health   Nurse   at   national   and international level.

UNIT 3

COMMUNITY AS A PARTNER:

In this unit learners will be provided with theory and skill, to assess and diagnose community problems and develop a workable plan on one of the problem identified. The emphasis will be given to the community as a partner in their health and developmental needs with the focus on participation and empowerment. The health needs of community, families, and individuals will be addressed by using Gordon’s FHP, epidemiological methods, and nursing process. Global health transition and health problems of developed and developing countries will also be discussed.

 

OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the unit the learners will be able to
  1. Define the vision, mission, and planning cycle.
  2. Describe the concepts of community assessment.
  3. Discuss the components of System framework
  4. Learn the concepts of Management Information System (MIS).
  5. Discuss the different approaches of community as a partner.
    • Population approach
    • Risk approach
  6. Discuss the techniques of promoting community mobilization and participation
  7. Perform the priority setting exercise.
  8. Discuss the concepts of QALYS and DALYS
  9. Develop a plan to collaborate with individuals, families, groups and communities to implement course of action.
  10. Discuss the implementation process by capturing the concept of Community participation, and sustainability.
  11. Develop the evaluation process and its types.