COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

Placement: 2nd Year

Hours of instruction
Theory: 90 Hours
Course Description
This course is designed for students to appreciate the principles of promotion and maintenance of health.
Objectives
At the end of the course the students will be able to:
1. describe concept and dimensions of health.
2. describe determinants of health.
3. describe concept, scope, uses, methods and approaches of epidemiology.
4. describe epidemiology and nursing management of common communicable and non-
communicable diseases.
5. describe concepts and scope of demography.
6. describe the methods of data collection, analysis and interpretation of demographic data.
7. identify the impact of population explosion in India.
8. describe the methods of population control.
UNIT HOURS TITLE TEACHING AUDIO EVALUATION
METHODS VISUAL
AIDS
1 Introduction Lecture cum OHP, Slip test
3 • Community health nursing discussion Charts,
1 • Definition, concept & dimensions of health PPT,
1 • Promotion of health Flash cards
1 • Maintenance of health

II Determinants of Health Demonstration OHP, Slip test

1 • Eugenics Charts,
1 • Environment: PPT,
o Physical: air, light, ventilation, water, housing, sanitation; Flash cards
1 disposal of
waste, disposal of dead bodies, forestation, noise, climate,
communication: linkages
1 o Acts regulating the environment: national pollution control
board
o Bacterial & viral: agents, host carriers & immunities
1 o Arthropods & rodents
1 o Food hygiene: production, preservation, purchase,
1 preparation,
consumption
1 o Acts regulating food adulteration act, drugs & cosmetic act
• Socio- cultural
o Customs, taboos
1
o Marriage system
1
o Family structure
o Status of special groups; Females, Children, Elderly,
challenged groups
and Sick persons
 • Life Style
• Hygiene
1 • Physical activity
1 o Recreation and sleep
o Sexual life
1 o Spiritual life philosophy
o Self reliance
o Dietary pattern
1 o Education
o Occupation
• Financial Management
o Income
o Budget
o Purchasing power
o Security

Epidemiology Lecture cum OHP, Unit test

III • Definition, concept, aims, scope, uses and terminology used discussion Charts,
2 in epidemiology PPT,
• Dynamics of disease transmission: epidemiological triad Flash cards
2 • Morbidity and mortality: measurements
• Levels of prevention
2 • Methods of epidemiology of
2 o Descriptive
o Analytical: Epidemic investigation
2 o Experimental

Epidemiology and nursing management of common

IV Communicable Diseases Seminar method OHP, Unit test
• Respiratory infections Charts,
5 o Small pox PPT,
o Chicken pox Flash cards
 o Measles Handouts
o Influenza
o Rubella
o ARI’s & Pneumonia
o Mumps
o Diphtheria
o Whooping cough
o Meningococcal meningitis
o Tuberculosis
o SARS
• Intestinal Infections
o Poliomyelitis
5 o Viral Hepatitis
o Cholera
o Diarrhoeal diseases
o Typhoid Fever
o Food Poisoning
o Amoebiasis
o Hook worm infection
o Ascariasis
o Dracunculiasis
• Arthropod infections
o Dengue
2
o Malaria
o Filariasis
• Zoonoses

Viral
3 o Rabies
o Yellow fever
o Japanese encephalitis Lecture cum OHP, Unit test
 o Kyasnur Forest Disease discussion Charts,
• Bacterial PPT,
o Brucellosis Flash cards
5 o Plague
o Human Salmonellas
o Anthrax
o Leptospirosis
• Rickettsial diseases
o Rickttsial zoonoses
o Scrub typhus
o Murine typhus
o Tick typhus
o Q fever
• Parasitic zoonoses
o Teaniasis
o Hydatid disease
o Leishmaniasis
• Surface infection
o Tracoma
o Tetanus
o Leprocy
o STD& RTI
o Yaws
o HIV &AIDS
Any other

Epidemiology and nursing management pf non-

communicable diseases
V Lecture cum OHP, Slip test
• Malnutrition: under nutrition, over nutrition, nutritional
Discussion Charts,
deficiencies
2 PPT,
• Anaemia
Flash cards
• Hypertention
 2 • Stroke
2 • Rheumatic. Heart disease
2 • Cancer
2 • Diabetes mellitus
2 • Blindness
• Accidents
2 • Mentalillness
• Obesity
• Iodine deficiency
2 • Fluorosis
• Epilepsy
2
Demography
• Definition, concept and scope
VI • Methods of collection, analysis and interpretation of Discussion OHP, Unit test
2 demographic data method Charts,
2 • Demographic rates and ratios PPT,
Flash cards
1 Population and its control
• Population explosion and its impact on social, economic
VII development of Seminar method OHP, Unit test
2 individual, society and country Charts,
• Population control: PPT,
2 o Overall development: women empowerment, social, Flash cards
economic and
2 educational development
• Limiting family size:
2 o Promotion of small family norm
o Methods: spacing (natural, biological, chemical,
2 mechanical methods etc)
2 o Terminal: surgical methods
Emergency contraception
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