GUIDELINES FOR SELECTING PRIMARY CARE NURSING CONTENT FOR THE PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE NURSING PROGRAM IN NEPAL.
Contributors: Columbia University. Teachers College.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Based on the Alma-Ata Declaration--"Health for All by the Year 2000" (HFA/2000), this study attempts to prepare guidelines for selecting primary care nursing content for the professional certificate nursing program in Nepal.

The method of the study includes a review of the literature on the Alma-Ata resolution on primary health care, primary nursing, primary care nursing in the context of the United States, and curriculum and a brief description of the current nursing education program in Nepal.

The primary health care approach of the Alma-Ata Declaration stresses the total social and economic development of the community wherein health is one of the components.

Guidelines prepared for the curriculum development and faculty orientation in the area of primary care nursing include: the philosophy of primary care nursing and its integration into the school's philosophy, specifying program objectives, the condition essential to learning, orienting the faculty and determining the content. The development of guidelines for curriculum planning and orientation of the faculty is viewed as a key to the achievement of the goal mandated by His Majesty's Government of Nepal.

The study finds that in order to realize the goal of HFA/2000, the present nursing education program must shift (1) from a curative to a preventive approach, (2) from hospital-based to community-based, and (3) from an exclusively health group to a multi-sectoral community team.

The study recommends that (1) concepts of primary care nursing be an integral part of the curriculum, (2) the faculty be thoroughly oriented to the concepts of primary health care, (3) continuing education be organized for renewal and updating of nursing knowledge, (4) community leaders and resources be mobilized in developing primary health care programs, (5) emphasis be placed on preventing illness rather than treating the sick, and (6) research be a component of a nursing education program.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-08, Section: B, page: 2496.

Thesis (ED.D.)--COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE, 1984.

School code: 0055.