Nursing 1: community health
BDN
9 points * 149 hours per semester * First semester * Gippsland
The subject will provide the opportunity to understand the notion of health from a variety of perspectives. The focus of the subject will be the community setting, the health of individuals and groups, the nurse's role in promoting health, the provision of primary health care and the implications of promoting `Health for all by the year 2000'. The subject acknowledges that community health services are provided mainly by nurses. It strives to create an awareness of their own community among students. The clinical component aims to provide the opportunity to explore the provision of health care to individuals and groups in communities, to synthesise theory and practice, to develop skills of a health care novice. The subject is taught by lectures, tutorials, a group project and field experience in the community setting. Attendance at 80 per cent of nursing laboratory/tutorial sessions and all field experience is mandatory.
Assessment
Written (1000 words): 10% * Group project and presentation: 40% * Examination: 50% * Performance on field experience graded on pass/fail basis * Successful completion of the subject requires a pass in the theoretical examination. Students who do not pass the field experience are deemed to have failed the whole subject
Prescribed texts
McMurray A Community health nursing: Primary health care in practice 2nd edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1993
Kozier B and others Fundamentals of nursing: Concepts, process and practice 4th edn, Addison-Wesley, 1991