COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
Course Description: This course is designed for students to appreciate the principles of promotion and maintenance of health & practice community health nursing for the individual, family and groups at both urban and rural settings by using concept and principles of health and community health nursing.
Learning Objectives:

• Describe concept and dimensions of health
• Describe determinants of health
• Describe concept, scope, uses, methods and approaches of epideminology
• Describe epidemiology and nursing management of common communicable and non-communicable diseases
• Describe concepts, and scope of demography
• Describe methods of data collection, analysis and interpretation of demographic data
• Identify the impact of population explosion in India
• Describe the methods of population control
• Define concepts, scope, principles and historical development of community health and community health Nursing
• Describe health plans, policies, various health committees and health problems in India.
• Describe the systems of delivery of community health services in rural and urban areas Panel discussion
• List the functions of various levels and their staffing pattern
• Explain the components of health services
• Describe the alternative systems of health promotion and health maintenance.
• Describe the chain of referral system
• Describe Community health nursing approaches and concepts
• Describe the roles and responsibilities of community health nursing personnel
• Describe and appreciate the activities of community health nurse in assisting individuals and groups to promote and maintain their health.
• Describe national health and family welfare programmes and role of a nurse
• Describe the various health schemes in India
• Explain the roles and functions of various national and international health agencies