Ateneo de Zamboanga University

College of Nursing
NCM 113j Community Health nursing
(Population groups and Community as client)

Course Name: NCM113j: Community Health Nursing (Population groups, and community as
client).
Course Description: This course deals with concepts, principles, theories and techniques in
the care of population groups and communities utilizing community organizing strategies
toward health promotion, disease prevention, restoration and maintenance, and
rehabilitation and community development. The learners are expected to provide safe
appropriate and holistic nursing care to clients utilizing the community health nursing
process.
Course credit: Theory 3 units
Contact Hours/Semester: RLE _51_hrs.
Placement: Third year, First Semester
Course Objectives: At the end of 1st Semester of the third year, given families, population
groups, and communities, the learners will have acquired the knowledge, skills, attitude in
the care of a client in varied health care settings. The learners demonstrate safe, appropriate,
and holistic care utilizing the nursing process and applying research and evidence-based
practice.
COURSE OUTLINE / TIME TABLE

WEEK TARGET DATE TOPIC CONTENT

WEEK 1 August 7-11, 2023 1.) Overview of Community Health Nursing
A. Philosophy and Principles
B. Features of CHN
C. Theoretical Models/Approaches
1. Health and Belief Models
2. Milio’s Framework for Prevention
3. Nola Pender’s Health Promotion
4. Lawrence Green’s Precede-Proceed Model
5. Proceed –Policy Regulatory and Organizational
Construct in Educational and Environmental
 Development

WEEK 2 August 14-18, 2023 D. Different Fields

1. School Health Nursing
2. Occupational Health Nursing
2.) Concept of the Community
A. Types of Community
B. Characteristics of a Healthy Community
C. Factors affecting Health of the Community
1. Characteristics of the population
2. Location of the community
3. Social systems within the community
WEEK 3 August 21-25, 2023 3.) Roles and activities of Community Health
Nurse

4.) Information Technology and Community

Health
A. Definition of e-Health
• Storage
• Retrieval
• Transmittal
B. Power of Data Information
C. e-Health situation in the Philippines
D. Using e-Health in the community
E. Roles of the Community Health Nurse in e-
Health

WEEK 4 August 28- 5.) Current Trends in Public Health Global and
September 1, 2023 National
• Role of the Community Health Nurse in the
National and Global Health Care Delivery System

6.) Health Related Entrepreneurial Activities

• Community – Based Projects
• Wellness Clinic
WEEK 5 September 4-8, 2023 7.) Health Statistics and Epidemiology
A. Tools
1. Demography
• Sources of Data
•Population size
• Composition
• Distribution
2. Health Indicators
• Crude Birth Rate
 • Crude Death Rate
• Infant Mortality Rate
• Maternal Mortality Rate
• Specific Leading Causes of Morbidity
• Leading Causes of Mortality
• Life Expectancy
WEEK 6 September 11-15, B. Philippines Health Situation
2023 1. Demographic Profile
2. Health Profile
C. Epidemiology and the Nurse
1. Definition and related terms
2. Natural Life History of Disease
3. Epidemiology Triangle
4. Epidemiology Process and Investigations Rates
of Mortality
WEEK 7-8 September 18-22, 8.) Nursing Process in the Care of Population
2023 Group and Community
September 25-29 A. Community Health Assessment Tools
2023 1. Collecting Primary Data
• Observation
• Survey
• Informant interview
• Community Forum
2. Secondary data Sources
• Registry of Vital Events
• Health Records and Reports
• Disease Registries
• Census Data
3. Methods to Present Community Data
MITERM EXAMINATION
WEEK 9 October 16-20, 2023 B. Community Diagnosis
1. Types
a. Traditional
b. Participatory Action Research (PAR)
2. Scheme in Stating Community Diagnosis
NANDA
• Shuster and Goppingen Omaha System
WEEK 10- 11 October 23- 27, 2023 C. Planning Community Health Intervention
1. Priority Setting WHO Special Consideration
2. Formulating Goals and Objectives
3. Deciding on Community Interventions/Plan
Actions
D. Implementing Community Health Intervention
 1. Importance of Partnership and Collaboration
2. Activities Involved in Collaboration and
Advocacy
3. Community Organization and social
Mobilization
4. Core Principles in Community Organizing
5. Goals of Community Organizing
Community Organizing Participatory Action
Research
• Proper Excreta
• Disposal
• Food Safety
• Sanitation
• Vermin and vectors Control
• Built Government
WEEK12-13 November 6-10, E. Monitoring and Evaluating Community Health
2023 Programs Implemented
1. Designing and Implementing Evaluation
program
• Monitoring
• Evaluation
2. Types of Evaluation
• Planning
• Formative
• Summative
3. Steps of Program Evaluation

WEEK 14 November 13-17, F. Documentation and Reporting

2023 1. Family Health Records
2. Community Profile

9.) Working with Groups towards Community

Development
A. Stages of Group Development
WEEK 15 November 27- Dec 1, B. Interventions to Facilitate Group Growth
2023 1. Orientation, Structure, Directions
2. Process, Negotiate, and Resolve Conflicts
3. Awareness of the effects of Behavior
4. Application of New learning
C. Collaboration and partnership.
December 3, 2022 Final Examination