Department Name: Community Health Nursing

Course Offered: General Nursing Midwifery, P.B.B.Sc. (N), B.Sc. Nursing, and M.Sc. Nursing.

Recognized By:

1. Indian Nursing Council (INC)
2. Government of Maharashtra
3. Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS)
4. Maharashtra Nursing Council (MNC)
5. Maharashtra State Board of Nursing & Paramedical Education,Mumbai(MSBNPE)

MISSION

• Community Health Nursing departments play a vital role in improving public health by addressing the needs of communities and empowering individuals to take charge of their health.
• Conduct home visit and develop rapport with individual, family and community. Visit to Water purification, Milk dairy, Sewage treatment plant, Grampanchayat, PHC, Anganwadi and school to learn about records, reports and organization pattern maintained. Maintenance of family folders.
• Demonstrate different method of preparing food according to the nutritional need of the family.



VISION

To achieve a healthy, empowered, and resilient community where individuals and families have equitable access to quality health care, and where health promotion, disease prevention, and holistic well-being are at the core of community life.




OBJECTIVES:

• Patient care.
• Preventive, promotive and curative care.
• Implement through critical thinking.
• Ensure family centered care.
• Provide health education.
• Collaborative care.
• Research and innovation.
• Quality improvement.
• Professional development.
• Resource management.



FACULTY PROFILE:

SR. NO.	NAME OF FACULTY	DESIGNATION	QUALIFICATION
1.	Ms. Ruchira Chawan	Assist Professor	M.Sc. Nursing
2.	Ms. Gayatri Puranik	Clinical Instructor	M.Sc. Nursing
3.	Ms. Dipali Chavan	Clinical Instructor	M.Sc. Nursing
4.	Ms. Ujwala Surve	Clinical Instructor	Bsc Nursing
5.	Ms. Prajakta More	Clinical Instructor	PBBSC Nursing
6.	Ms. Dhanashree Gaykar	Clinical Instructor	Bsc Nursing

WORKLOAD:

COMMUNITY POSTING:

Community postings are planned according to the clinical curricular requirement of the students at, Rural health training center, Dervan and Urban health training center, Chiplun.

COCURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:

The Community Health Nursing departments organizes various activities to fulfill their mission and its achieved through Health Education, Workshops, Health Screening, Family Health Surveys, Home Visits, School Health Programs, Community Health Camps, Training Programs, Research Projects, Public Health Campaigns, Role play etc. which are conducted in local regions as well as at Taluka level.