Advanced Community Nursing

Course Description

 This course focuses on introducing basic and foundational concepts related to community health nursing. Students will explore public health and the barriers and faciliators associated with managing chronic disease/illness in a complex and evolving healthcare system.

Furthermore, students exemplary and effectively addressing complex community nursing problems in day care units and home care for chronically disabled people, eldery and other similar venerable groups of people.   Also, community nurses –

• assess the specific health and disease needs of the community’s population,
• promote its health and
• provide integrated nursing services in primary health care structures, mainly at home, preventing health problems, promoting this level of health every age group and every special group, providing tertiary-level services in an out-of-hospital setting and covering the wide range of rehabilitation services in the community.