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  • An-Najah National University

    College of Health Science and Medicine

    Nursing and Midwifery Department

    Community Health Division

     

     

    Course Name: Community Midwifery

    Course Num. : 7402403

    Compulsory/ Elective : Compulsory Course 2^nd  semester 

    Course Level: 4^th year

    Course Credit Hours: 2 

    Design Semester : 2nd Semester 2012-2013

     

    Instructor:  

    Instructor Name : Dr. Mariam Amer Al-Tell 

     

     

    Prerequisites:     Adult Health Nursing 1&27405201, Mental Health;7404303, Child and Adolescent Health Nursing 7403301

     

    Course Description :

    This Course addresses some concepts of community-based midwifery care. It guides the student midwife to utilize the tools so to understand some important facts in their local communities that may have an effect on health. The student will do this exercise through compiling a 'community profile'. There will be special focus on women's roles, job descriptions and the health and mortality pathways that might exist in the community.

     

    Course Objectives:

    The course aims to :

    • Provide students with tools and information that help them to identify community health problem

    • Prepare student to work in thier communities and provide the health care acording to aggregate and groups 

       

       

    To see the full course outline .. Click Here

• Topic 1

  Chapter One: The Context for Community Health

  Part One:

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    Introduction :

    • Community health context

    • Definition of terms and related concepts 

    • Historical views 

    • Community health nursing practice settings

     

    Plan:

    1- Study the following file .. 

• Topic 2

  Chapter One: The Context for Community Health

  Part Two:

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    Introduction:

    • Role of community health midwife 

    • Factors affecting health

     

    Aims of the chapter:

    At the end of this part learner will be able to :

    • Define the community health related concepts ; community, aggregate, primary health care, health promotion, risk factors, associated factors….etc.

    • Determine different  factors that have bearing on the health of the community.

    • Analyze factors affecting health of different groups/aggregate in different settings; KG(pre-school), school,  families.

    • Search Internet database for new updates.

     

    Plan :

    1- Study the following files ..

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    File

    Factors Affecting Health File
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    File

    Role of Community Health Midwife File
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    2- Answer the following activity ..

• Topic 3

    Approaches to Community Health

   

  health promotion 

  primary health care 

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    Introduction :

    • Health promotion – disease prevention  

    • Primary health care

    
    
    Aims:

    At the end of this chapter learner will be able to :

    • Define the community health related concepts ; community, aggregate, primary health care, health promotion,  risk factors, associated factors….etc.

    • Recognize the different level of prevention

    • Discuss importance of PHC in context of health care system

    • Differentiate between health promotion and health prevention activities  

    • Utilize a health promotion model as a framework for health behavior change.  

    • Ascertain maternal mortality associated factors

    • Search Internet database for new updates  

     

    Plan:

    1- Study the following two files ..

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    File

    health promotion File
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    File

    primary health care File

• Topic 4

  Chapter Two: Approaches to Community Health

  Part Two:

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    Introduction:

    • Epidemiology; basic principles

    • Definition

    • Models and uses

    • Different methods of study in epidemiology 

     

    Aims:

    1. Describe the research methods used in epidemiology to identify risk factors for specific health problems

    2. Use epidemiological model to analyze community health problem

     

    Plan:

    1- Study the following file about epidemiology

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    File

    Epidemiology File
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    2- The attached link explain the epidemiological  triangle model

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    URL

    Epidemiology URL
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    3- Answer the following activity ..

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    Assignment

    Epidemiology Assignment

    Dears:
    Select one of any health condition   /disease like lung cancer, smoking,  road accident or  influenza  and 

    •  Apply triangle epidemiology model  to find out the related factors and

    •  Define how will prevent the occurrence of the selected disease or condition 

• Topic 5

  Chapter Three: Care of Special Populations

  Part One:

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    Introduction:

    • Family health care

    • Risk Factors Affecting Family health   

    • The Healthy Family

    • Family Assessment

    • Guidelines for Family Health Assessment

     

    Aims:

    At the end of this chapter learner will be able to :

    • Determine  different  factors that have bearing on the health of the community

    • Utilize a health promotion model as a framework for health behavior change. 

    • Use the “ community as client” approach  in provision of care for different aggregates applying concepts of disease prevention, health promotion

    • Conduct community health assessment to identify  health problem of groups/ aggregate based for different community health setting ; school, work place  

    • Conclude health needs of women and her family during home visit

    • Ascertain maternal mortality associated factors

    • Value the community health midwife  role in provision of care at different setting  

    • Search Internet database for new updates  

    • Submit all written work on due date using English language

    • Work effectively as part of a team.

    • Establish a therapeutic relationship with patient/family

     

    Plan:

    Study the attached file 

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    File

    Family Health File
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    File

    family in crisis and violence File

• Topic 6

  Chapter Three: Care of Special Populations

  Part Two:The Home Visit

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    Introduction :

    • Implementing plans for promoting the health of families

    • Care of families in crisis: violence and abuse

     
    Aims:

    At the end of this part learner will be able to :

    • Determine role of Community health midwife  in health promotion and disease prevention

    • Conclude health needs of   women and her family during home visit

    • Reveal the main communicable and non-communicable disease in Palestine 

    • Search Internet database for new updates 

    • Submit all written work on due date using English language

    • Work effectively as part of a team.

    • Establish a therapeutic relationship with patient/family

     

    Plan :

    1- Study the attached files .. then answer the activity below..

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    File

    HOME VISIT File

• Topic 8

  Chapter Three: Care of Special Populations

  Part Three: Community Health Care

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    Introduction :

    • Guidelines for community health assessment, diagnosis and planning for intervention according to level of prevention      

    • Main health problems 

     

    Aims:

    At the end of this part learner will be able to :

    • Determine different factors that have bearing on the health of the community

    • Utilize a health promotion model as a framework for health behavior change. 

    • Conduct community  health assessment to identify  health problem of groups/ aggregate based for different community health setting ; school, work place  

    • Conclude health needs of women and her family during home visit  

    • Ascertain maternal mortality associated factors

    • Value the community health midwife  role in provision of care at different setting  

    • Search Internet database for new updates

    • Submit all written work on due date using English language

    • Establishes a therapeutic relationship with patient/family

     

    Plan:

    1- Read the following files about community health 

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    File

    Community Health File
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    2- Answer the community health activity 

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    3- Answer the following activity

• Topic 10

• Topic 11

  Chapter Four: Care of Specific (Vulnerable) Populations

  Part Three: Health of School Age Children

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    Introduction :

    1. Analyze the situation of adolescent in Palestine

    2. School health environmental assessment

                 • Health problems of school-age children in cities village and camps

                 • Health problems of adolescents

                 • Health services for school-age children and adolescents

                 • Role of the school nurse

     

    Aims:

    At the end of this part learner will be able to :

    • Analyze factors affecting health of different groups/aggregate in different settings; KG(pre-school), school, families …     

    • Conduct community health assessment to identify health problem of groups/ aggregate based for different community health setting ; school, work place 

    • Value the community health midwife role in provision of care at different setting  

    • Establishes a therapeutic relationship with patient/family

     

    Plan :

    - Study the following file about school health

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    File

    School Health File
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    File

    School Sheet File
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    Assignment

    Assignment 2: school health

    school X is  girl  school, the number of students is 500 girls, with age between 10-14years old  5% are obese  and  one have DM1. the school consists of 2 floors , the stairs with out rails. It is located at the main streets which is with out road traffics , the rate of accidents is about 20%. 

    answer the following questions 

    what are the factors that have been assessed with examples 

     write 4 nurses diagnosis according to assessed factors 

• Topic 12

  Chapter Five: Common Community Health Issues / Problems

  Part One:

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    Introduction :

    • Chronic disease

    • Associated risk factors

    • Nursing intervention according to level of prevention 

     

    Aims:

    At the end of this chapter learner wil be able to :

    •  Describe the research methods used in epidemiology to identify risk factors for specific health problems

    • Utilize a health promotion model as a framework for health behavior change. 

    • Use epidemiological model to analyze community health problem 

    • Reveal the main communicable and non-communicable disease in Palestine 

    • Value the community health midwife  role in provision of care at different setting  

     

    Plan :

    - Study the following files about chronic disease

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    File

    NCD File
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    File

    NCD File
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    2- Watch the following video

     

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    Assignment

    Assignment NCD

    Dears

    Globalization has its effect on the occurrence of NCD's, it led to an increase in most of those diseases 

    explain and discuss this effect of globalization on NCD's highlight your answer with examples 

    thank you 

• Topic 13

  Chapter Five: Common Community Health Issues / Problems

  Part Two: Communicable Disease

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    Introduction : 

    This part will cover the following topics :

    • Definition

    • Associated risk factors

    • Nursing intervention according to level of prevention  

     

    Aims:

    • Reveal the main communicable and non-communicable disease in Palestine

    • Value the community health midwife  role in provision of care at different setting

    • Search Internet database for new updates

    • Establishes a therapeutic relationship with patient/family

     

    Plan :

    1- Study the file about communicable disease

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    File

    Communicable Disease File
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    2- Answer the following activity

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    Assignment

    Communicable Disease Assignment

     

    Find out what is ( Notification System ) ???
    

     
    

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    3- Watch the following video, and answer the activity below

     

• 15: Final evaluation
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    Assignment

    evaluation 2 : application ; COVID 19 Assignment

    Dears

     COVID 19 recently hit all the world, apply the chain of infection model and clarify each chain for the disease; what is the agent,

     List points regarding how to break these chains to prevent or minimizing the transmission of disease 

     thanks 

     Marian 

• Final Exam 23/5 MCQ

  Dears

  there will be an exam out of 20 on 3/5/2020,  all learning material  will be included in the exam 

  thanks 

  Mariam

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    Quiz

    Final Exam Quiz