Department

Goals

Acquire good theoretical knowledge and skills based on the principles of community health nursing and practice with emphasis on comprehensive family health care.  Participate as a member of health care team in preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative health care to individuals , families and communities.  Demonstrate skill in nutritional assessment for different age groups in the community and provide appropriate nutritional counselling  Provide health education to individuals and families applying the principles and techniques of behaviour change appropriate to community setting  Develop effective communication skills and maintain good interpersonal relationship with family members and other health team workers.  Practice evidence based nursing care with relevant research findings while rendering family health care.  Conduct community based participatory research.

Strength

Faculty Excellence: Well-qualified postgraduate teaching faculty.  Different teaching learning strategies: The department provides student centred teaching and learning by adopting innovative teaching learning methods like peer group teaching, project method, field trips Self directed learning , Context Based Learning, Team based learning, Problem based teaching learning methods and Simulation.  Well Equipped Community Lab: Spacious Lab equipped with adequate number of articles, community bags and AV aids. Enough facility to carry out demonstration, OSCE and OSPE . Students are given extensive hands-on training in the lab before practicing in the actual clinical area  Nurse Led Clinic: Nurse Led Clinic was started in 2016 under the  Department of community health nursing to provide preventive and promotive health care services to the people of adopted village.