عمر شوكت محمد العمرى

Course content

 Course description:

This course tackles primary community health care principles and means of delivering care to individuals, families, and groups. The roles of the community health nurse are viewed from a multifaceted, dynamic, and interactive perspective within the limits of changing environment. Student will explore the impact of illness on the individual, family and community in general. Clinical experiences will be provided within a variety of setting with focus on the assessment of the community needs, health prevention promotion, maintenance, and restoration.

After the completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Integrate knowledge from scientific / humanistic sciences with community health nursing principles in order to facilitate learning.
2. Understanding the history and evaluation of community health nursing.
3. Define community health nursing.
4. Describe the process of community assessment to plan the nurse actions.
5. Discuss the concepts of family assessment in the different situations of the family.
6. Identify different community health nursing roles.
7. Discuss the importance of introducing change at different community setting.
8. Identify health related problems facing the family.
9. Discuss social issue considered as community health problems.
10. Understand cultural issues that are related to community health.
11. Describe the roles of the school nurse.
12. Understand care provided to older adults living in a community.
13. Understand care provided to mentally ill persons in the community.
14. Discuss importance of environmental health in maintaining health community.
15. Relate primary health care concepts to community health nursing.
16. Identify the importance of epidemiological topics in community health nursing.

• Lectures \ discussion.                                            
• Small group discussion.                                                        
• Student presentation.
• Assigned text book reading.  
• Selected reading and internet assignments.

Course Evaluation Methods:

Students will be evaluated according to the following:

1. student are expected to attend all class sessions, if a student must miss a class, the instructor must be notified and the student should be notified and the student should be notified he is allowed only 25% of total hours .
2. student are expected to come to class prepared having read assigned readings- guidelines for class preparation summary of the lecture will be in the library.
3. Students are expected to participate in all class learning activities.

References:

Stanhop & Lancaster. Community Health Nursing: promotion of aggregates, families and individuals, 4^th ed. Mosby, Boston, 2000.