Provides preventive, curative, rehabilitative and referral services. The students are trained on core competencies for clinical care (WHO, 2010) in the community health .The core competencies for clinical care range from health assessment, disease management, case finding, case management, observation and treatment according to delegated responsibility, etc. Regular surveys / enumeration are carried out for planning and implementation of health programmes.

Screening of communicable and non communicable diseases, such as DM, HT and Cardiovascular diseases, cancer cervix , TB, Filaria, dengue fever and HIV & AIDS. Regular home visits are made by community health nursing students under the supervision of the department faculty members.

Students perform physical assessment of different age groups including antenatal and postnatal assessment, nutritional assessment, socioeconomic and environment assessment and identify the health needs and problems of the family.

Apply nursing process in the family which includes assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation steps. It also includes promoting health behavior including food and nutrition, physical exercise, counseling, self-care, treating of minor illnesses, complementary therapies etc.

Surveillance and referrals/follow up for acute and critical illnesses.

Empowering and capacity building of community agencies/ organizations, groups and networks to encourage collaborative community initiatives on healthy physical environment and sanitation, food safety, healthy workplaces, road safety, and nurturing social relations and activities among people in the community.

On regular basis, the department conducts school health programme for both private and government schools. The package includes school health examination, referral and health education programme.

In collaboration with other departments of AVMC&H, the department conducts free medical camps in the schools and community.

Conduct need based individual, group and mass health education program regularly in the family, community, health centre, and schools.

Nursing students actively participate in all national health programmes, most importantly in Maternal and Child Health, Immunization Programme, Filaria, Malaria, TB, Leprosy and HIV/AIDS programmes in collaboration with government and public health sector.

Participate actively during epidemics.

The Department caters to the learning needs of the students of B.Sc. (N) II year& IV year, B.Sc. Nursing (Post Basic) II year, M.Sc.(N) I year and II year Community Health Nursing specialty. Further, Maternal and Community Mental Health Nursing experience is provided OBG, and Psychiatric nursing postgraduate students.The distribution of community health theory and clinical hours for undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students is as follows:

Laboratory Activities

The students are provided with fully equipped laboratory and have facilities to perform various activities to enable the students to meet their curricular requirements during their community clinical experience. They are provided with.

A bag -to perform physical examination, urinalysis and check the vital signs of the individual in the various age groups.

Nutritional measuring cups-24 hours dietary recall for all target groups AV Aids – charts, posters, puppets, flannel graph, hygiene kit and family welfare kit.

Records and reports – area map, family folders, and assessment forms of various age group.

Family folders are stored in the computer and updated periodically by the students to facilitate long term follow up.

Teachers / Faculty Training :

Faculty members are periodically trained by university faculty development programme and research workshop.

Innovative Teaching

Self Learning Desk : The skills lab of the department focuses on improving skill development among students. The required equipments for the procedure are provided in the learning desk for a student to practice and enhance his / her skill and knowledge component.

Competency-Based Learning (CBL) : The CBL is implemented to ensure whether the students meet achievement and mastery benchmarks it focuses on student mastery of performance and learning outcomes through a set of pre-defined learning objectives. Students are encouraged to demonstrate mastery of the identified competencies in the clinical area at their own pace. This method is tailored to meet the needs of students with different learning abilities and leads to efficient student outcomes.

Top scorer of the subject is awarded Gold Medal for aggregate of the mark in the Community Health Nursing II subject both theory and practical in IV year B.Sc. Nursing.

Faculty members supervise and guide the students in the clinical area to apply the theory into practice. Students are helped to meet their log book requirements. Various clinical teaching methods like demonstration, nursing rounds, case presentations, nursing conference are carried out.

Service Areas Covered :

Rural : Ariyakuppam Rural training centre of AVMC&H :

Nallavada

Narambai

Moorthykuppam

Urban: ChinnakanganankuppamUrban Health

Service Provided :

Demographic survey

Home visits

Nursing procedures like health assessment for various age groups, including physical and nutritional assessment

Simple laboratory investigations like urinalysis for albumin and sugar

Provides priority based nursing care for all age group

Renders individual, group and mass health education programmes

Conducts school health services

Implements national health program in collaboration with public health sector

Major focus of care involves maternal and child health, geriatrics and mental health

Conducts free medical camp regularly with AVMC&H

Conducts mass awareness program 1-2 / year (minimum)

Participates actively in all National Health Programmes like pulse polio, dengue awareness, filariasis, leptospirosis, etc

Communicable disease (TB, Malaria, AIDS)
Maternal and child health (Antenatal, intranatal, postnatal,& child care)
Community nutrition (malnutrition, obesity)
Non- communicable disease (DM, Hypertension, Cardio vascular disease)
Geriatric Health (common health issue)

Extended Activities
   Collaborating Organization

     1.Proposal submission for ICMR project

     2.UBA Project

   Membership

     TNAI

     SOMI

     ATNA

The Department is actively participating in the clinical and non-clinical research in the following levels:

Departmental

Inter-departmental

International

Completed Research Projects :

On Going Project In The Following Thrust Areas OF Our Department

communicable disease (TB, Malaria, AIDS)

Maternal and child health (Antenatal, intranatal, postnatal,& child care)

Community nutrition (malnutrition, obesity)

Non- communicable disease (DM, Hypertension, Cardio vascular disease)

Geriatric Health (common health issue)

We do collaborative work and research with UBA, ICMR, primary health centre, 3adopted villages of VMCON, old age home, deaddition centre. Community medicine department, Rural Health and Training centre of AVMC&H , Clinical nutrition department.

Department of community health nursing works in collaboration with various other organization in the conduction of health camps and special health programmes in VMCON and adopted villages.

Department of community health nursing joints hands with Government of Puducherry for various health activities including Polio camps and source reduction programme.

Department of community health nursing interlinked with enrolment of 180 students in Swatch Bharat internship training programmes.