Blood and Cardiovascular Disorders: Risk Factors, Assessment and Management

picture_as_pdf Community Health Strategy: Primary Health Care Principles, Community Health Units, Volunteers and the Service Package Maina's Nakuru campus course notes, starting with the principles and strategies of primary health care and social mobilisation and the background of the Community Health Strategy in Kenya. Detailed sections follow on the community health unit and its governance, the roles and motivation of CHVs and CHEWs, communication at level one, the service package, danger signs by cohort, orphans and vulnerable groups, and the commodities and supplies the teams need. PDF KES 40.00 picture_as_pdf Disaster Management: Types, Phases, Mitigation, Preparedness and Fire and Flood Response A disaster management lesson working through the terms and definitions, the natural types - meteorological, topological, tectonic and biological - and the man-made ones from bioterrorism and chemical warfare to explosions. It then takes the five phases from warning through impact, response, relief and rehabilitation, the tangible and non-tangible impacts, mitigation as structural and non-structural measures, preparedness, and closes on managing a fire disaster with burn assessment, medical first aid and organised relief, and on flooding. PDF KES 40.00 picture_as_pdf Final Qualifying Examination Paper One General Nursing for the Diploma in Community Health Nursing Paper one, general nursing, of the final qualifying examination for the Diploma in Community Health Nursing, sat in three hours as twenty multiple choice items, eight short answers and two long answers. The items run through the systems - gastric acidity and the pancreas, anticoagulant teaching, injection technique, anaemia, bronchiectasis and acute bronchitis, the daily calorie split, spinal cord tumour, Guillain-Barre, the stroke history, the vascular coat of the eye, vaginitis, thyroidectomy and the parathyroid, chronic kidney disease, skin lesions, acute pancreatitis, polycythaemia, pemphigus, the nursing process, hospice care and drug matching. The written answers cover non-compliance with anti-tuberculosis drugs, age-related cardiovascular change, the stages of nursing assessment, the pathophysiology of sight, the functional areas of the cerebrum, the digestive hormones, the psychosocial effects of a below-knee amputation and oxygen therapy, and the two cases are the man in hypovolaemic shock and the man with a partial intestinal obstruction. PDF KES 35.00 picture_as_pdf Environmental Health Nursing Module: Types of Environment, Water and Sanitation, Food Safety, Housing and Vector Control The environmental health module for nursing students, built on a course outline that runs from the types of environment through food safety and hygiene, water and sanitation, housing and the control of vectors and pests. It treats the biological, physical, socio-cultural, economic and political components of the environment and their effect on health, occupational health and safety with dust control at the workplace and the diseases of asbestos, the water-borne disease groups, refuse and excreta disposal as described in the law, the ventilation and roofing of a house, and the statutory provisions on water protection. PDF KES 40.00 picture_as_pdf Missed Opportunities in Immunization Defines missed opportunities in immunization as a situation where an eligible child or woman does not receive a vaccine dose at a health facility. PDF FREE