This course is taught in all 3 years of the program. This course provides knowledge and skills required to care for women in the child bearing ages and for children from birth to five years of age. Relevant elements of Primary Health Care are also studied. This course will introduce students to problem solving approaches in the community. The content focus on the Community Health Nurse's role in developing Primary Health Care Programs to meet the special needs of the community.
Students also learn to work with other health team members.
This course is taught in all the three years of the program. Emphasis is placed on the concepts of stress, adaptation, and functional health patterns to provide Humanistic care in a variety of clinical settings to healthy and ill adult clients. The students are guided at different levels to recognize the effects of disease processes on individuals and their families. They are taught how to assist individuals to return to an optimal level of wellness. This course explores historic personalities and the development of nursing through the ages from primitive times to the present day.