Community Health Nursing II

Enfermagem de Saúde Comunitária II

Curse code:9500314

Paula Helena Loução Paulo Sarreira Nunes de Oliveira

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

Goals:

• Identify strategies for health promotion and risk reduction throughout the life cycle, aiming at health gains.
• Acquire knowledge that enables the student to conceive and provide health care to the person, family and community.
• Analyze the specificity of family health care needs throughout the life cycle.
• Reflect and understand the importance of family nursing in the context of health care.
• Reflect on the role of the nurse as care manager.

Skills:

• Understands strategies for strengthening actions in the field of health promotion, prevention and eradication of preventable diseases, and continuity of care among individuals, families and other community groups.
• Mobilize knowledge using critical thinking.
• Looks at the person, family and community in a holistic perspective taking into account the various determinants of health.
• Generate and interpret information from different sources, with a view to the systematization of knowledge based on scientific evidence.
• Produces a personal and reasoned discourse, taking into account different perspectives on the problem of nursing in the family.
• Knows how to mobilize the knowledge needed to solve problems.
• Recognizes the potential of health education in nursing interventions and acts to empower the individual, family, and community in the adoption of healthy lifestyles.
• Defends the right to participate in health policy development and program planning.
• Applies knowledge about resources, using appropriate teaching-learning strategies.
• Evaluates processes and results for health promotion integrated into teamwork.
• It values research as a contribution to the development of nursing and as a means to improve standards of care.

Syllabus:

1. Public and community health.
2. Applications of epidemiology in community health.
3. Epidemiological research.
4. Epidemiological surveillance and public health.
5. National Health Plan.
6. Project methodology.
7. Public health projects.

Suggested Bibliography:

• Gordis L. (2010). Epidemiologia. 4ª ed. Loures: Lusodidacta.
• Mausner JS. (2009). Introdução à Epidemiologia. 5ª ed. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
• Figueiredo, M. H. (2012). Modelo dinâmico de avaliação e intervenção familiar - Uma Abordagem Colaborativa em Enfermagem de Família. Loures: Lusociência.
• Bonita, R., R. Beaglehole, T. Kjellström. (2010). “Epidemiologia Básica”. 2ªed. WHO. Santos Editora: São Paulo. Brasil.
• Stanhope, M. & Lancaster, J. (2011). Enfermagem de saúde pública. (7ª ed.). Loures: Lusociência.
• Wright, L. & Leahey, M. (2010). Enfermeiras e Famílias: Um Guia para Avaliação e Intervenção na Família; (5ª ed.). São Paulo: Editora Roca.