COURSE OUTLINE

1. COURSE CODE : CHN

2. COURSE TITLE : Community Health Nursing (CHN) Lecture
3. PRE – REQUISITE : Logic; Philosophy of Man
4. CO – REQUISITE : N/A
5. COURSE CREDIT : 3 Units Lecture
6. CONTACT HOURS/SEMESTER : 3 Units Lecture Hours (54hours) and 2 Units (102hours) Related Learning Experiences
7. COURSE DESCRIPTION : This course covers the concepts and principles in the provision of basic care in terms of health
promotion, health maintenance and disease prevention at the individual, family, community level ,and special population groups. It includes the study of
Philippine Health Care Delivery System and the global context of public health .It describes what community /public health nursing is all about in the context of
the Philippine Health Care Delivery System and in community development.

Overview

I. CONCEPTS ON HEALTH PROMOTION and DISEASE PREVENTION

A. Definition of terms
B. Health as a multi-factorial phenomenon
C. Levels of Prevention
D. Theories Related to Health promotion and health education
1. Pender’s Health Promotion Theory
2. Bandura’s Self Efficacy heory
3. Health Belief Model
II. CONCEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH and COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING (CHN)

A. Concept of public health

1. Definition
2. Philosophy
3. Historical background
4. Principles of Public Health
5. Core of functions of Public health
6. Economics in public health
7. Roles and functions of a public health nurse.
 B. Concepts of community health nursing
1. Definition
2. Goals and objectives
3. Historical development of community health nursing in the Philippines.
4. Nursing theories related to community nursing in the Philippines
5. Concepts and principles of community health nursing.
C. Specialized Field in Community Health Nursing

III. PHILIPPINE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM (PHCDS)

A. The Department of Health (DOH)

1. Mission, Vision , Objectives and Strategies of DOH
2. National Health Objectives
3. Millenium Development Goals
4. Levels of Health Care facilities
B. Restructured Health Care Delivery System
C. Devolution of Health Care services (RA 7160)

IV. FAMILY HEALTH NURSING

PROCESS (FNHP)
A. Concept of Family as a basic unit of the society.
1. Concept of Family
2. Theories related to family
3. Characteristics of Family
B. Types of Family
1. Composition
2. Descent
3. Authority
C. Stages of family development
D. Roles and responsibilities of family members.
E. Rights of a Family
F. Steps in Family Nursing Process
1. Conducting family assessment
2. Assessing Health Status
 3. Family Health Task
4. Typology of nursing problems in FHNCP
5. Developing a family nursing care plan
6. Implementing a family nursing care plan
7. Evaluating a Family nursing care plan

V. CONCEPTS OF COMMUNITY

A. Concepts of community
1. Types of community
2. Characteristics of community
B. Components of community
C. Elements of community
D. Factors affecting community Health
E. Approaches in community development
1. Traditional
2. Transformative
F. Principles and Activities of COPAR
VI. . COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING PROCESS
A. Steps in community nursing process
1. Assessing community health needs
2. Types of Community diagnosis
3. Participatory action research
4. Steps in conducting community diagnosis
5. Primary source of data
6. Secondary Source of Data
7. Factors affecting community diagnosis
B. Planning health program for community development
1. Concepts f planning
2. Activities of planning
3. Formulation of Action Plan

C. Implementation of plan of action for community health

1. Importance of collaboration and partnership
 2. Activities involved in collaboration and advocacy
3. Roles of the nurse in implementing community programs
D. Monitoring and evaluation of community health Programs
1. Designing and implementing evaluation plan
2. Indicators of evaluation
3. Steps in program evaluation
4. Tools for documentation

VII.WORKING WITH GROUPS TOWARDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

A. Stages of group development

B. Interventions to facilitate group growth
1. Orientation, structure direction
2. Process, Negotiate and resolving conflicts
3. Awareness of the effect of behaviour
4. Application of New Learning
5. Collaboration and partnership
6. Essential ingredients of partnership
7. Capabilities necessary for partnership

VIII. RELATED LAWS IN PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING

A. Magna Carta for Health Workers

B. Sanitation Code
C. Clean Air Act
D. Generic Act
E. National Health Insurance Act
F. Laws on Notifiable Diseases
G. National Blood Services Act
H. Senior Citizen Law
I. Revised dangerous Drugs Law
J. Act on Cheaper Medicines.
IX. HEALTH STATISTICS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY

A. Application of Public Health Tools in Community Health nursing

1. Demography
2. Sources of demographic data
3. Population size
4. Population Composition
5.Population distribution

B. Health Indicators
1. Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
2. Specific rates of Mortality
3. Leading Causes of Morbodity
4. Leading Causes of Morbidity
5. Life Expectancy.

C. Philippine Health Situation

1. Demographic profile
2. Health Profile

D. Epidemiology and the Public Health Nurse

1. Definition
2. Aspects of Epidemiology
3. Natural life history
4. Epidemiological Triangle
5. Epidemiological process and investigation

8. TEXTBOOK
Estrada-Castro, Cecilia; (2012),Community Health Nursing and Community Health Development;1st ed.

9. SUGGESTED READINGS AND REFERENCES

DOH-Department of health national Health Plan

 Famorca, Zenaida U.,Nietes,Mary A.;Mc Ewen,Melanie , (2013) Nursing Care in the Community, Elsevier, Singapore

IMCI Chart book

Ordonia-de Pona , Marie Curie,Primer on Community Health Nursing

Ordonia-de Pona , Marie Curie, Community Organization and Participatory Action Research (COPAR), A Manual of Action for Nursing Community Experience.

Schneider, Mary-Jane (2014), Introduction to Pubic Health 4th ed.,Jones and Barlett, Burlington MA

ONLINE REFERENCES

http://www.doh.gov.ph/

http://home.doh.gov.ph/intra/index.php

http://www.nurseupdates.com/laws-nursing-practice-philippines/