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NURS6022: Community Health Nursing
2025 unit information
This unit of study examines the major concepts and principles of community health nursing based on primary health care principles. It draws on public health concepts to focus on health promotion/illness prevention, community assessment and management of public health problems using epidemiological concepts integral to community health nursing. The nurse’s role in infectious disease outbreak investigation and screening is also explored. The primary health care principles also inform community nursing practice to focus on individual, family and home assessment and case management. Increasingly complex and chronic health conditions are being managed in the community and concepts of self-management, partnering with consumers are integrated into the unit. Approaches to the provision of nursing care for people of across the lifespan with acute, chronic, or life-threatening illness in settings where they live will be critiqued. Particular attention is given to the home visit process: its therapeutic nature, communication skills, ethical and safety issues. Students undertake a community assessment using a 'community profile' approach. This approach will be extended to explore and plan for the health needs of communities who experience health disparities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people living with physical, intellectual or psychiatric disabilities, minority cultural groups, and the homeless. Professional experience placements in the community provide students with the opportunity to consolidate and integrate theoretical knowledge and community nursing practice.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Nursing and Midwifery |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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NURS6018 and NURS6019 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. critically analyse the physical, psychological, socio-cultural, politico-economic, and environmental factors which influence community health by completing a community profile
- LO2. critically analyse how social determinants and community characteristics impact a range of public health problems
- LO3. integrate and apply the epidemiological concepts of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in the planning of programs and priorities to address public health problems across the lifespan
- LO4. demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the function of Primary Healthcare as theoretical basis for community nursing practice
- LO5. evaluate strategies used by the community nurse in assessment and case management to support self-management in the home with patients as partners in care
- LO6. demonstrate strength-based strategies for building partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professionals, organisations and communities in delivering health care, and designing and implementing health initiatives, both in course work and in clinical placements
- LO7. demonstrate competence in communication and inter-professional teamwork during clinical placement with a variety of clients, families and community agency personnel from diverse backgrounds in various community settings
Unit availability
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Westmead, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Westmead, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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