Rural Community Health Nursing Curriculum Model for Implementation in Integrated Rural Development Projects in Ecuador

摘要

As a follow-on to a field study revealing that lack of orientation to primary health care in Ecuadorean institutions of higher learning was leading to serious deficiencies in community health care delivery, a consultant worked with staff at the Catholic University of Ecuador to prepare this model curriculum for community health nurses for use in the University's School of Nursing. Graduates of the program are to be employed in A.I.D. integrated rural development projects in Peru. The curriculum has an interdisciplinary pre-professional level and 4 semi-integrated professional levels. It focuses on community health, following a levels-of-prevention model, progressing from primary to tertiary care and program planning. The content and associated disciplines (research, administration, nursing process, health education, and transcultural nursing) are taught in units organized according to the life cycle.