Community Health Nursing 1 Syllabus 2025

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CHN – I Syllabus 2025

Unit-I: Introduction to Community Health

• Definitions – community, community health, community health nursing.
• Concept of health and disease, dimensions and indicators of health, health determinants.
• History and development of community health in India and its present concept.
• Primary health care, millennium development concept.
• Promotion and maintenance of health.

Unit-II: Community Health Nursing

• Philosophy, goals, objectives and principles, concept and importance of community health nursing.
• Qualities and functions of community health nurse.
• Steps of nursing process – community identification, population, composition, health and allied resources, community assessment, planning and conducting community nursing care services.

Unit-III: Health Assessment

• Characteristics of a healthy individual.
• Health assessment of infant, preschool, school going, adolescent, adult, antenatal woman, postnatal woman, and elderly.

Unit-IV: Principles of Epidemiology and Epidemiological Methods

• Definition and aims of epidemiology, communicable and non-communicable diseases.
• Basic tools of measurement in epidemiology.
• Uses of epidemiology.
• Disease cycle.
• Spectrum of disease.
• Levels of prevention of disease.

Unit-V: Family Health Nursing Care

• Family as a unit of health.
• Concept, goals, objectives.
• Family health care services.
• Family health care plan and nursing process.
• Family health services – maternal child care and family welfare services.
• Roles and function of a community health nurse in family health service.
• Family health record.

Unit-VI: Family Health Care Setting Home Visit

• Purposes, principles.
• Planning and evaluation.
• Bag technique.
• Clinic – purposes, types of clinics and their functions.
• Function of health personnel in clinics.

Unit-VII: Referral System

• Levels of health care and health care settings.
• Referral services available.
• Steps in referral.
• Role of nurse in referral.

Unit-VIII: Records and Reports

• Types and uses.
• Essential requirements of records and reports.
• Preparation and maintenance.

Unit-IX: Minor Ailments

• Principles of management.
• Management as per standing instructions/orders.

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