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Community Health Nursing Concepts

A. Definition
B. Philosophy and Principles
C. Features of CHN
D. Theoretical Models/Approaches
 Health Belief Model
 Milio’s Framework for Prevention
 Nola Pender’s Health Promotion
 Lawrence Greens PRECEDE-PROCEED MODEL
E. Different Fields
 School Health Nursing
 Occupational Health Nursing
 Community Mental Health Nursing

II. Concept of the Community

A. Types
B. Characteristics of healthy Community
C. Components of a Community
D. Factors Affecting Health of a Community
E. Roles & Activities of a Community Health Nurse
 Personal attributes
 Professional Competencies

III. Health Statistics & Epidemiology

A. Tools
1. Demongraphy
 Sources of data
 Population Size
 Composition
 Distribution
2. Health Indicators/Vital Statistics
 Crude Birth Rate
 Crude Death Rate
 Infant Mortality Rate
 Maternal Mortality Rate
 Leading Causes of Morbidity
 Leading Causes of Mortality
 Life Expectancy

B. Philippine Health Situation

 Demongraphic Profile
 Health Profile
C. Epidemiology
 Definition and Related Terms
 Natural Life History of Disease
 Epidemiological Triangle
 Epidemiological Process & Investigations

IV. Nursing Process in the Care of Population Groups & Community

A. Community Health Assessment Tool

1. Primary Data Collection

 Observation
  Survey
 Informant Interview
 Community Forum

3. Secondary Data Sources

 Registry of Vital Events
 Health Records and Reports
 Disease Registries
 Census Data

 Methods to Present Community Data

V. Community Diagnosis
1. Types
 Traditional
 Participatory Action Research (PAR)

2. Schemes in Stating Community Diagnosis

 Shuster & Goppingen
 Omaha System

3. Planning Community Health Interventions

 Priority Setting (WHO Special Consideration)
 Formulating Goals and Objectives
 Deciding on Community Interventions/Action Plan

4. Implementing Community Health Interventions

 Partnership & Collaboration

 Activities Involved in Collaboration & Advocacy
 Community Organizing (CO) & Social Mobilization
 Core Principles of CO
 Goals of CO
 Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR)
 Definition of Concepts
 Steps
 Stages of COPAR
 Pre-entry
 Entry
 Organizational Building Phase
 Strangthening & Sustenance Phase
 Phase Out & Expansion

5. Monitoring & Evaluating Community Health Programs

 Designing and Implementing Evaluation Plan
 Monitoring
 Evaluation
 Types of Evaluation
 Planning
 Formative
 Summative
 Steps of Program Evaluation

6. Documentation & Reporting

 Family Health Record
 Community Profile
VI. Working with Groups Toward Community Development
 Stages of Group Development
 Intervention to Facilitate Group Growth
 Conflict
- Types

VII. Information Technology & Community Health

 E-health

 Definition
 Storage
 Retrieval
 Transmittal
Power of Data in Information

 health Situation in the Philippines

 Using E-health in the Community
 Role of the CHN nurse in E-health

VIII. Health-related Entrepreneurial Activities

 Community Based Projects
 Wellness Clinics