GROW MORE INSTITUTE OF NURSING, HIMMATNAGAR

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING -1
Theory

Placement: Second Year B.Sc. (N)	Time: Theory 90 hours

Practical 135 hours

Course Description: This course is designed for students to appreciate the principles of promotion and maintenance of health.

Unit	Time		Content	
	(Hrs.)			
			
I	2	Introduction	
		§	Community health nursing	
		§	Definition, concept and dimentation of health	
		§	Promotion of health	
		§	Maintenance of health	
			
II	20	Determinants of health	
		§	Eugenics	
		§	Environment:	
		Ø Physical: Air, light, Ventilation, water, Housing, sanitation; disposal of	
			waste, disposal of dead bodies, Forestation, noise, climate,	
			Communication: Infrastructure facilities and Linkages	
		Ø Acts regulating the environment: National Pollution control board	
		Ø Bacterial & viral: Agents, host carriers and immunity	
		Ø Arthopods and Rodents	
		§	Food hygiene : Production, Preservation, Purchage, Preparation,	
			Consumption	
		§	Acts regulating food hygiene Prevention of food adulteration act, Drug	
			and cosmetics act	
		§	Socio-culture	
		Ø	Customs, taboos	
		Ø	Marriage system	
				
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		Ø	Family structure	
		Ø status of special groups; Female, Children, Elderly, challenged groups	
			and sick persons	
		§	Life style	
		§	Hygiene	
		§	Physical activity	
		Ø	Recreation and sleep	
		Ø	Sexual life	
		Ø	Spiritual life philosophy	
		Ø	Self reliance	
		Ø	Dietary pattern	
		Ø	Education	
		Ø	Occupation	
		§	Financial Management	
		Ø	Income	
		Ø	Budget	
		Ø	Purchasing power	
		Ø Security	
			
III	10	Epidemiology	
		§	Definition, concept, aims, scope, uses and terminology used in	
			epidemiology	
		§	Dynamics of disease transmission : epidemiological tried	
		§	Morbidity and mortality ; measurements	
		§	Methods of epidemiology of	
		§	Descriptive	
		§	Analytical: Epidemic investigation	
		§	Experimental	
			
IV	25	Epidemiology and nursing management of common communicable diseases	
		§	Respiratory infections	
		Ø	Small Pox	
		Ø	Chicken Pox	
				
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•	Measles 

•	Influenza 

•	Rubella 

•	ARI’s & Pneumonia 

•	Mumps 

•	Diphtheria 

•	Whooping cough 

•	Meningococcal meningitis 

•	Tuberculosis 

•	SARS 

•	Intestinal Infection 

•	Poliomyelitis 

•	Viral Hepatitis 

•	Cholera 

•	Diarrhoeal diseases 

•	Typhoid Fever 

•	Food poisoning 

•	Amoebiasis 

•	Hook worm infection 

•	Ascariasis 

•	Dracunculiasis 

•	Arthropod infection 

•	Dengue 

•	Malaria 

•	Filariasis 

§ Zoonoses

VIRAL

•	Rabies 

•	Yellow fever 

•	Japanese encephalitis 

•	Kyansur Forest Disease 

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	§	Bacterial	
	Ø	Brucellosis	
	Ø	Plague	
	Ø	Human Salmonellas	
	Ø	Anthrax	
	Ø	Leptospirosis	
	§	Rickettsial diseases	
	Ø	Riskettsial Zoonoses	
	Ø	Scrub typhus	
	Ø	Murine typhus	
	Ø	Tick typhus	
	Ø	Q fever	
	§	Parasitic zoonoses	
	Ø	Taeniasis	
	Ø	Hydatid disease	
	Ø	Leishmaniasis	
	§	Surface infection	
	Ø	Trachoma	
	Ø	Tetanus	
	Ø	Leprosy	
	Ø	STD & RTI	
	Ø	Yaws	
	Ø HIV / AIDS	
	Any other	
		
10	Epidemiology and nursing management of common Non communicable	
	diseases	
	§	Malnutrition: under nutrition, over nutrition, nutritional deficiencies	
	§	Anaemia	
	§	Hypertension	
	§	Stroke	
	§	Rheumatic Heart Disease	
			
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		§	Coronary	
		§	Heart Disease	
		§	Cancer	
		§	Diabetes	
		§	Mellitus	
		§	Blindness	
		§	Accidents	
		§	Mental illeness	
		§	Obesity	
		§	Iodine Deficiency	
		§	Fluorosis	
		§	Epilepsy	
			
VI	6	Demography	
		§	Definition, concept and scope	
		§	Methods of collection, analysis and interpretation of demographic data	
		§	Demographic rates and ratios	
			
VII	17	Population and its control	
		Ø Population explosion and its impact on social, economic development of	
			individual, society and country	
		Ø Population control:	
		Ø Overall development: Women empowerment, social, economic and	
			educational development	
			§ Limiting family size:	
		Ø Promotion of small family norm	
		Ø Methods: spacing (natural, biological, chemical, mechanical methods	
			etc)	
		Ø Terminal: surgical methods	
		Ø Emergency contraception	
				
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					Community Health Nursing -1			
Practical							
Placement: Second Year		Time: Practical 135 hours	
								
	Areas	Duration			Skills		Assignments	
		(in week)						
	Communit	2 Weeks			Use Techniques of interpersonal	To work with 2	
	y health	urban and			relationship		assigned families	
	nursing	2 Weeks			Identifications of health determinants of		each in urban and	
		rural			community		rural	
					History taking		Family study – 1	
					Physical examination		Observation report	
					Collect specimens sputum, malaria smear		of community – 1	
					Perform simple lab tests at centre-blood	Health talks 2 (1 in	
					for Hemoglobin and sugar, urine for		urban and in rural)	
					albumin and sugar			
				Administer vaccines and medications to			
					adults			
				Counsel and teach individual, family and			
					community			
					Nutrition			
					Hygiene			
					Self health monitoring			
					Seeking health services			
					Healthy life style			
					Family welfare methods			
					Health promotion			

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