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Concept of community nutrition. Planning, organisation and evaluation of Community Nutrition programmes (concept of community participation, social mobilisation, participatory monitoring and evaluation). Assessment of ecological factors affecting community nutrition. Methods of Assessment of nutritional status of individuals and groups in a community. Use of growth and development chart. Economic aspects of nutrition. Food budgets. Food habits. Surveys in rural and urban communities. Applied nutrition programmes and interventions (Nutrition specific and sensitive interventions). School feeding programmes. Nutrition rehabilitation centres. Nutrition and National harmony. Nutrition information and surveillance system. Field visits to communities for nutrition assessment and interventions.

Health education, environmental health, occupational health, public health administration/health care. Epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Social medicine. National and international regulations relating to health. Student exposure and participation in practical applications of all procedures on real patients in the community (at both rural and urban health centres, geriatric homes and many others), with appropriate case analysis and clarifications with supervising clinicians. Clinician-patient communication is assessed. Each student is evaluated on the subjective, objective, plan and management aspects of community patient care, such as referral. The community Optometry outreach course follows the Community Based Experience and Service (COBES) approach. Emphasis is on rural communities to deliver eye care services and carry out survey of endemic eye and vision problems under WHO (The Right to Sight) Programme. Participation in vision screening programmes for schools, industries. and institutions for the less privileged.

Principles of health education – contact, screening, health talks. Community clinic – establishing physiotherapy clinics in villages and towns (mosques, churches, markets, schools and many others), Itinerant and domiciliary services. Organisation of domiciliary physiotherapy services in developed countries. Philosophy of Community based Rehabilitation (CBR). Philosophy of Primary Health Care (PHC). Primary Health Care physiotherapy services in Nigeria.

Historical antecedents of community/public health nursing practice. Role of community/public health nurses in the diverse community settings. The context of family as the unit of care in the community. Concept of the family. Types and characteristics of families. Family developmental tasks. Family nursing theories. Tools in family health assessment and family care. Demography and population dynamics. Community assessment. Community mobilization, participation and involvement. Levels of prevention. Nursing process as applied to community practice. Skills used in community practice. Levels of health prevention. Socio-demographic variables and population dynamics as predictors of patterns of life in the community. Patterns of diseases in the community. Application of development programmes and services at community levels.

Working in and with the community. Skills and attitudinal disposition to analyse the socio-cultural, political, economic, ethical and environmental factors that influence individual, family, community and global health. Models for community health practice, principles and theories of health promotion. Health counselling. Primary Health Care (PHC) – concept, elements, principles, components and service delivery. Child welfare services. Immunisation Schedules/Vaccination of under-five children and adults. The Cold Chain Systems. Special Programmes in Child Health Growth monitoring, oral rehydration, breast-feeding and immunization - Female education, Family spacing and food supplementation (GOBI-FFF). Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood diseases (IMNCI). School health services. Disaster nursing. Primary oral health care principles.

Definition of concepts. Methods and processes of community needs assessment. Development, implementation and evaluation of public/community health nursing, including primary health care programmes. Planning, organisation, and administration of programmes to meet community health needs, building on knowledge, attitudes and skills. Working with small groups and specific groups in the community – - school health population, - the elderly, - people with disabilities - children/adolescents in correctional homes/ facilities and others - strategies for control of family and community violence Programme planning, implementation and evaluation in the community. Promoting health of home care populations. School health nursing and application of nursing process in the community. 500 Level

The students engage in service delivery at the primary health care level as emerging health professionals to acquire skills in consultation and management of common childhood diseases and common endemic diseases affecting the family. Other activities include planning with community groups and undertake appropriate follow up include home visits. Public Health Nurses supervise students for diagnoses and management of common childhood illnesses. Common endemic diseases in family context. Prescription of drugs and use of standing orders in the management of such illnesses. Students participate in school health programmes, surveillance and control of communicable diseases.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD). CAD Hardware and Software; The Drawing Tools; Design management; Introduction to 3-D Design, 3 D Modeling; The printing and plotting process. Design of Prosthetics and Orthotics and other Biomedical products.

Content (theory): concept and scope of information technology, Computers for information storage, information seeking, and information processing and information transmission. Elements of computer system, computer hardware and software. Numeric data, alpha numeric data. Contents of a program and processing. Computer organisation, block diagram of a computer, CPU, memory. Input devices. Keyboard, mouse and many others. output devices, VDU and Printer, Scanner and Plotter. Electrical requirements, inter-connections between units, connectors and cables. Secondary storage: magnetic disks – tracks and sectors, optical disk (CD and DVD Memory), primary and secondary memory: RAM, ROM, PROM and many others. Capacity; device controllers, serial port, parallel port, system bus. Exercises on file opening and closing. Memory management. Device management and input – output (I/O) management with respect of windows. Installation concept and precautions to be observed while installing the system and software. Introduction about Operating Systems such as MS-DOS and Windows. Special features, various commands of MS word and MS-Excel. About the internet – server types, connectivity (TCP/IP, shell). Applications of internet like: e-mail and browsing. Various Browsers like WWW (World Wide Web). Hyperlinks; HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Basics of Networking – LAN, WAN and Topologies. Practical: Given a PC, name its various components and list their functions. Identification of various parts of a computer and peripherals. Practice in installing a computer system by giving connection and loading the system software and application software. Installation of DOS and simple exercises on TYPE, REN, DEL, CD, MD, COPY, TREE, BACKUP commands. Exercises on entering text and data (Typing Practice). Installation of Windows 98 or 2000 and many others. Features of Windows as an operating system: Start, Shutdown and restore, Creating and operating on the icons, Opening closing and sizing the windows, Using elementary job commands like – creating, saving, modifying, renaming, finding and deleting a file, Creating and operating on a folder, Changing setting like, date, time color (back ground and fore ground), Using short cuts, Using on line help. MS-WORD: File Management: Opening, creating and saving a document, locating files, copying contents in some different file(s), protecting files, Giving password protection for a file, Page Set up: Setting margins, tab setting, ruler, indenting, Editing a document: Entering text, Cut, copy, paste using tool-bars, Formatting a document: Using different fonts, changing font size and colour, changing the appearance through bold/ italic/ underlined, highlighting a text, changing case, using subscript and superscript, using different underline methods: Aligning of text in a document, justification of document, Inserting bullets and numbering, Formatting paragraph, inserting page breaks and column breaks. Use of headers, footers: Inserting footnote, end note, use of comments, Inserting date, time, special symbols, importing graphic images, drawing tools, Tables and Borders. Creating a table, formatting cells, use of different border styles, shading in tables, merging of cells, and partition of cells, inserting and deleting a row in a table. Print preview, zoom, page set up, printing options, Using Find, Replace options, Using Tools like: Spell checker, help, use of macros, mail merge, thesaurus word content and statistics, printing envelops and labels. Using shapes and drawing toolbar, Working with more than one window in MS Word, How to change the version of the document from one window OS to another.

Review and expansion of telecommunications and its related technologies, telephone, modems , telex, videotext, tele text,VANs packet switching, LANs satellite, microwave, fiber optics, and many others. History of the development of network , and why networks fails , networking configurations (star, ring, distributed and many others). Trade-offs between telecommunication and storage in system design, physical; vs. logical configuration, compatibility and standard gateways and interconnections, economics of networking, data flows, privacy and many others. Governance and policies relating to networks copyright, downloading and many others.