The course introduces the scope of community health nursing, with emphasis on nursing care rendered in homes and health agencies for the promotion of health and prevention of illness based on the concept of primary health care Provides theory and practice essential to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the clients across the lifespan in the community individuals, families, groups. Emphasis is on the study and application of nursing role components inherent in community health for health promotion and as disease prevention based on the concepts of primary health care, self-care and home health care. Conceptual and scientific frameworks applied to community-oriented nursing practice including environmental health, epidemiology, evidence-based practice, community health education, theories, models and principles. Environmental health focuses on the types of health organizations in the community and the services rendered in the promotion of health and prevention of illness, as well as on the national programs dealing with the elements of primary health care
