Textbook of Community Health Nursing-II (7th Semester)

This book demonstrates all the practice competencies and skills for beginners that are relevant to provide comprehensive primary health care/community based care to clients with common diseases and disorders including emergency and first aid care at home/clinics/centres as per predetermined protocols/drug standing orders approved by MOH&FW. It tells readers how to provide maternal, newborn and child care, and reproductive health including adolescent care in the urban and rural health care settings, describe the methods of collection and interpretation of demographic data, explain population control and its impact on the society and describe the approaches towards limiting family size, etc... It describes occupational health hazards, occupational diseases and the role of nurses in occupational health programs, identifies health problems of older adults and provide primary care, counselling and supportive health services. It teaches students how to participate in screening for mental health problems in the community and providing appropriate referral services, discuss the methods of data collection for HMIS, analysis and interpretation of data and how to discuss about effective management of health information in community diagnosis and intervention.