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SNGP3011: Primary Health Care and Community Nursing
2024 unit information
This unit of study examines the major concepts and principles of community health nursing including self-care, continuity of care, primary health care, health promotion/illness prevention, community assessment, family assessment, and home care. Approaches to the provision of nursing care for people in settings where they live will be critiqued. Particular attention is given to the home visit process: its therapeutic nature, communication skills and safety issues. The nurse's role in health promotion and disease prevention within a developmental life stage approach will be explored. Students will learn the nurse’s role in situations as diverse as participating in national efforts to reduce the population’s disease vulnerability to efforts to support a successful palliation in a community setting. Epidemiological concepts and methodologies integral to community health nursing are also explored. Students will also gain insight into the challenges that face practitioners who need to translate population health information into appropriate individualised healthcare plans for people of all ages from infancy to older age.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Nursing and Midwifery
| Code | SNGP3011 |
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| Academic unit | Nursing and Midwifery |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an understanding of how health and disease have been managed throughout history and how this history has led to the emergence of health discourses such as primary healthcare and the new public health
- LO2. demonstrate knowledge of basic public health concepts and terms such as the natural history of disease, agent host environmental triangle, three levels of prevention and screening of disease
- LO3. identify physical, psychological, socio-cultural, politico-economic, and environmental factors that influence community health
- LO4. describe and critically examine the processes by which epidemiological evidence develops into a useful resource for evidence-based practice and informs a community needs assessment
- LO5. carry out a comprehensive health assessment of individuals in community settings, plan and implement nursing care for these clients
- LO6. design appropriate personal and communal health promotion strategies in response to community and individual needs assessment
- LO7. demonstrate competence in communication and interaction with a variety of clients and families as well as agency personnel and other community resources in clinical settings
- LO8. perform advanced level interrogation of scholarly literature to better understand the relationship between key constructs explored within this unit of study.
Unit availability
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Semester 2 2024
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Block mode | Singapore |
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