Community Health Nursing
Unit 4: Community Health Nursing approaches, concepts, and
roles and responsibilities of Nursing Personnel (26 Hours)
• Approaches
• Nursing theories and nursing process
• Epidemiological approach
• Problem solving approach
• Evidence based approach
• Empowering people to care for themselves
• Concepts of primary health care
• Equitable distribution
• Community participation
• Focus o prevention
• Use of appropriate technology
• Multi sectoral approach
• Roles and responsibilities of community health nurse in:
- Family health services
- Information education communication (IEC)
- Management information system (MIS): Maintenance of
records and reports
- Training and supervision of various categories of health
workers
- National health programmes
- Environmental sanitation
- Maternal and child health and family welfare
- Treatment of minor ailments
- School health services
- Occupational health
- Orgamisation of clinics, camps: types, preparation, planning,
conduct and evaluation
- Waste management in the centre, clinic etc
- Home visit: concept, principles, process techniques: bag
technique home visit
- Quantities of community health nurse
- Job description of community health nurse personnel