Community Health Nursing is the specialty that prepares the students to meet the ever changing challenges of society. The course orients the students to the concept of positive health and successful living and focuses on the families in the community and population groups with health risks. The students identify and solve health problems in the community through innovative and cost effective strategies of primary health care. The practical experience is provided in settings like Navabharath rural health Centre (Munambam) and Chaithanya Urban Health Centre (N.Paravoor)in collaboration with the Department of Community Medicine.
This experience includes opportunities for participation in various National Health Programmes and guided observation visits to various locations of public health importance. The Department organizes household surveys, epidemiological investigations, health projects, mass campaigns, home visits, health care programs, school health programs, special clinics, etc. in the urban and rural health centres . The awareness campaigns, exhibitions, and health education activities organized in the villages to train the students effectively to interact with the community on health topics. Thus, this department is acting as the campus-community link of the college.
