Unit Code: NAP882

Unit Name: Advanced Community Health Nursing

Description: This course offers the students multiple community-based opportunities to integrate clinical assessment and management skills into a family and community oriented approach to primary health care. It is also designed to assist students in furthering the health team discussions and planning sessions which foster individual and group problem-solving and decision-making abilities. During the course students apply primary health care concepts and principles to the provision of promotive and curative individual and family health care within the Healthy Islands Settings and other relevant approaches. Integrated throughout the course are the concepts of communication, values clarification and conflict resolution, family-oriented health care, community involvement and empowerment, organization and participation, health service and resource availability, health education, environmental health, health status indicators, vital and health statistics, epidemiology, basic research process, resource management, health care planning, policy-making and evaluation, nutrition, teamworking, leadership, change theory, collaboration and coalition building.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to: 1. Examine the relationship between the epidemiological and statistical reports to the health care services and strategies of the local health ministries in Fiji and the Pacific. 2. Formulate strategies to address common community health issues using the research process 3. Demonstrate knowledge and skills of the health promotion processes on a planned project 4. Examine strategies to manage a health facility, including resource management of personal, equipment, drugs and supplies. 5. Develop a health education plan for individuals, families or community groups.

Prerequisite: NAP880 & NAP881

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 20

Offered In: Semester 2