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COURSE AUDIT 1
PART I: PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
Unit I. Overview of Community Health Nursing
A. Definition/Concepts
1. Health
2. Concepts of health and wellness / Determinants of health
3. Public Health
4. Public Health Nursing
5. Health Promotion/Health Maintenance/Disease Prevention
6. Levels of Prevention
Unit II. Community Health and Development Concepts, Principles and Strategies
A. Primary Health Care Approach
1. Definition; PHC as a philosophy, approach, structure and services
2. Legal Basis of PHC in the Philippines
3. Components of PHC
B. Health Promotion
1. Concept of health promotion (as embodied in the Ottawa Charter, November 1986)
2. Health promotion strategies
C. COPAR
1. Phases of COPAR and activities under those phases
Unit III. The Community Health Nursing Process
A. Assessment of Community Health Needs
1. Community Diagnosis
2. Tools used in community diagnosis
i. Vital and health statistics
ii. Epidemiology
Unit IV. Implementing the Community Health Nursing Services
A. Components of program implementation
B. National health programs of the DOH
1. Family health services
i.
Maternal health
ii.
Family planning
iii.
Child health
a. Expanded program on immunization
iv.
Nutrition program
v.
Oral health program
vi.
Essential health packages for the adolescent, adult men and women and older Persons
4. Environmental Health
i. Water supply sanitation
ii. Proper excreta disposal
iii. Solid waste management
iv. Vector control
v. Food sanitation
C. Specialized fields of community health nursing
1. School health nursing
2. Occupational health nursing
3. Community mental health nursing
Unit V. Recording and Reporting
A. Family Health Service Information System
B. Components of FSHIS page 80
1. Family Treatment Record
2. Target Client List
3. Reporting Forms
4. Output Reports
PART II: MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
Unit I. Overview of Psychiatric Nursing
A. Evolution of mental health-psychiatric nursing practice

B. The mental health nurse

1. Role
2. Essential qualities
Unit II. Mental Health-Psychiatric Nursing Practice
A. Personality theories and determinants of psychopathology: Implications for mental health-psychiatric
nursing practice
1. Psychoanalytic
2. Behavioral
3. Psychobiologic
4. Cognitive
5. Psychosocial
B. General assessment considerations
1. Principles and techniques of Psychiatric nursing interview
2. Mental status examination
3. Diagnostic examinations specific to psychiatric patients
C. Building nurse-client relationship
1. Nurse-client interaction vs. nurse-client relationship
2. Therapeutic use of self
3. Therapeutic communication
a. Characteristics
b. Techniques
4. Goals in the one-to-one relationship
5. Phases in the development of nurse-client relationship
D. Therapeutic modalities, psychosocial skills and nursing strategies
1. Biophysical /somatic interventions
a. Electroconvulsive and other somatic therapies
b. Psychopharmacology
2. Supportive Psychotherapy
a. Nurse-patient relationship therapy
b. Group therapy
c. Family therapy
3. Assertiveness training
4. Stress management
5. Behavior modification
6. Milleu therapy
12. Psychosocial support interventions
E. Concept of Anxiety
1. Defining characteristics of Anxiety
2. Levels of Anxiety
3. Manifestations of Levels of Anxiety
a. Physiologic
b. Psychologic
4. Ego Defense Mechanisms
a. Four levels of Defense
G. Crisis
1. Types of crisis
2. Phases of Crisis Development
3.Characteristics of Crisis
4. Crisis Intervention