CLINICAL SPECIALITY- I
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
Placement: [Link] 1st Year Hours of Instructions
Theory 150 hours
Practical 650 hours
Total 800 hours
Course Description
The course is designed to assist students in developing expertise and in- depth understanding in the field of Community Health Nursing. It
would help students to appreciate holistic life style of individuals, families & groups and develop skills to function as Community Health
Nurse specialist/practitioner. It would further enable student to function as an educator, manager and researcher in the field of Community
Health nursing.
Objectives
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
1. Appreciate the history and development in the field of Community Health and Community Health Nursing.
2. Appreciate role of individuals and families in promoting health of the Community.
3. Perform physical, developmental and nutritional assessment of individuals, families and groups.
4. Apply the concepts of promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative aspects of health while providing care to the people.
5. Apply nursing process approach while providing care to individuals, families, groups and community.
6. Integrate the concepts of family centered nursing approach while providing care to the community.
7. Recognize and participate in the management of emergencies, epidemics and disasters.
8. Apply recent technologies and care modalities while delivering community health nursing care.
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9. Appreciate legal and ethical issues pertaining to community health nursing care.
10. Conduct community health nursing care projects.
11. Participate in planning, implementation and evaluation of various national health and family welfare programmes at local, state and the
national level.
12. Incorporate evidence based nursing practice and identify the areas of research in the community settings.
13. Participate effectively as a member of Community Health team.
14. Coordinate and collaborate with various agencies operating in the community by using inter-sectoral approach.
15. Teach community health nursing to undergraduates, in-service nurses and the community health workers.
16. Demonstrate leadership and managerial abilities in community health nursing practice
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Course Content
Unit Hours Content Teaching learning activities Assessment method
I 10 □
Int Introduction
Historical development of Community Health and
Community health Nursing- World and India, various
health and family welfare committees Unit Tests
Presentation
Project work
Written assignments
□ Current status, trends and challenges of Community Lecture cum discussion
Health Nursing
□ Health status of the Community-community diagnosis
□ Scope of Community health Nursing practice
□ Ethical and legal issues
□ Socio-cultural issues in Community health Nursing
□ National Policies, plans and programmes
• National health policy
• National Population policy
• National Health and welfare Programmes
• National Health goals/ indicators/ Millennium
developmental goals(MDG)/ Strategies
• Planning process: Five year plans
• National Rural Health Mission
• Panchayat raj institutions
II 10 He alth
□ Concepts, issues
□ Determinants Lecture cum discussion
□ Measurements
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□ Alternate systems for health promotion and Unit test
management of health problems Oral
Objective types
Essay types
□ Health economics
□ Health technology
□ Genetics and health
□ Waste disposal
□ Eco system
III 15 Po pulation dynamics and
□ control Demography Lecture cum Unit test
discussion Oral
Objective types
Essay types
□ Transition and theories of population
□ National population policy
□ National population programmes
□ Population control and related programmes
□ Methods of family limiting and spacing
□ Research, Census, National Family Health Survey
Unit Hours Content Teaching learning activities Assessment method
IV 30 □
Co Community health Nursing
Philosophy, Aims, Objectives, Concepts, Scope, Unit test
Principles, Functions Lecture cum Oral
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discussion Objective types
Essay types
□ Community health Nursing theories and models
□ Quality assurance: Community health Nursing
standards, competencies, Monitoring community health
nursing, nursing audits
□ Family nursing and Family centered nursing approach
□ Family health
nursing
process o
Family
health
assessment
o Diagnosis
o Planning
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Interventio
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Evaluation
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Nursing care for special groups: children, adolescents,
adults, women, elderly, physically and mentally
challenged- Urban and rural population at large
□ Community nutrition
□ Concept, role and responsibilities of community health
Nurse practitioners/nurse midwifery practitioners-
decision making skills, professionalism, legal issues
V 45 Maternal and neonatal care Lecture cum discussion Unit test
□ IMNCI(Integrated Management of Neonatal And Oral
Childhood Illnesses) module Objective types
□ Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA) module Essay types
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VI 15 □ Disaster nursing (INC module on Reaching out: Nursing Lecture cum discussion Essay types
Care in emergencies)
VII 10 In Formation, education and
□ communication IEC/BCC: Principles and
strategies
□ Communication Skills Oral
Objective types
Essay types
□ Management information and evaluation system: Lecture cum discussion
Records and reports
□ Information technology
□ Tele-medicine and tele-nursing
□ Journalism
□ Mass media
□ Folk media
VIII 15 H alth care delivery system: Urban, rural, tribal and
e difficult Lecture cum
areas discussion
□
Health organization: National, State, District, CHC,
PHC, Sub Centre, Village - Functions, Staffing, pattern Unit test
of assistance, layout, drugs, equipments and Oral
supplies,Roles and Objective types
Responsibilities of DPHNO Essay types
□ Critical review of functioning of various levels,
evaluation studies, recommendations and nursing
perspectives
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□ Alternative systems of medicine
□ Training and supervision of health workers
Unit Hours Content Teaching learning activities Method of assessment
□ Health agencies: NGO’s, Roles and functions Lecture cum discussion Objective types
□ Inter-sectoral coordination Essay types
□ Public private partnership
□ Challenges of health care delivery system
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Practical Total = 660 Hours
1 Week = 30 Hours
[Link]. Deptt./Unit No. of Week Total Hours
1 Sub-centre, PHC, CHC 12 360 Hours
2 District family welfare bureau 1 30 Hours
3 Urban centers 6 180 Hours
4 Field visits 3 90 Hours
Total 22 Weeks 660 Hours
Student Activities
• Identification of community leaders and resource persons(community mapping)
• Community health survey
• Community health nursing process- individual, family and special groups and community
• Counseling
• Health education – campaign, exhibition, folk media, preparation of IEC materials
• Organising and participating in special clinics/camps and national health and welfare programmes-Organise atleast one health and family
welfare mela/fair (all stalls of national health and family welfare activities should be included)
• Estimation of Vital health statistics -Exercise
• Drill for disaster preparedness
• Organise atleast one in-service education to ANM’s/LHV/PHN/HW
• Nutrition – Exercise on nutritional assessment on dietary planning, demonstration and education for various age groups
• Filling up of Records, reports and registers maintained at SC/PHC/CHC
• Assist women in self breast examination
• Conduct antenatal examination
• Conduct vaginal examination
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• Conduct deliveries
• Post natal visits
• Perform Episiotomy and suturing
• Prepare Pap smear
• Conduct Insertion/Removal of IUD
• Blood Slide preparation
• Field visits
• Maintenance of log book for various activities