Course title: Communicable Disease Control (CDC)
Module code: Nurs-M2091
Course number: NURS2094
Degree program: BSC degree in nursing
Module name: Community health module
Module number: IX
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Name of Course instructors
ECTS credits: 7 ECTS
Contact hours Tutorial Home study hours Total
64 32 93 189
Lecture /contact days: 19 days
Lecture room: ____________
Target group: 2nd year BSc nursing students
Prerequisite: Microbiology and, Parasitology, Pharmacology for nurses
Status of the course: core
Course description
This course is designed to prepare graduate BSc. nurses who are competent providers of
community health services with regard to early case detections, management of cases,
surveillance, outbreak investigation, control and prevention of common communicable disease.
Course objective
After completion of this course the students will be able to acquire knowledge and skills of
basic concepts and theory regarding communicable disease, methods of surveillance, control of
outbreak, early case detections, and managements of cases, prevention and control of
communicable diseases and be able to provide nursing care for patients with communicable
disease using nursing process as frame work.
Specific objectives
Define communicable disease
Describe chain of disease transmission
Discuss on common methods of communicable disease control
List communicable disease under national and international regulation
Describe disease under surveillance by MOH currently
Apply nursing process in management of patients with disease that are transmitted by
contaminated water and food
Apply nursing process in management of patients with disease that are transmitted by
inhalation
Apply nursing process in management of patients with disease that are transmitted by
vector
Apply nursing process in management of patients with disease that are transmitted
sexually
Apply nursing process in management of patients with disease that are transmitted
from animals
Explain specific prevention and control measures of disease of public health important
in Ethiopia
Describe epidemiology, risk groups, modes and rate of transmission in different age
groups, control measures, relationship between TB and HIV, common OIs, and initiation
of PEP of HIV/AIDS
Course outline and Schedule
Day Topic Conta Assign Required Rema
ct ment reading rk
hour Due
1 UNIT ONE:INTRODUCTION 4hrs Reference
1,2, 3,4,6&8
Definition of common terms (important terms)
Communicable disease/ (infectious disease)
Specific feature of communicable disease
Classification of communicable disease
2 Unit two: Chain of disease transmission 4hrs Exam 1 Reference
(diseases transmission dynamics) 1,2, 3,4,6,7&8
Determinants of disease and defense
mechanism of hosts
Factor determine the degree of infectivity,
Pathogenicity and virulence
Source of infection
Carriers and Infected individuals
Host parasite interactions (measuring of
infectiousness)
Spectrum of infectious disease/ gradient of
infection/
Natural history of disease
3 Unit three :Epidemiology and general methods 6hrs Reference
of prevention and control of communicable 1,2, 3,4,9&8
diseases
Introduction to epidemiology of communicable
disease
Importance of Studying Communicable Diseases
Epidemiology
General methods of prevention and control of
communicable diseases
Principles of communicable disease control
4 Unit 4hrs Case Reference
Study 1 1,2,
Surveillance and the investigation
3,4,6,8&12
and management of outbreaks
unit ten:
Notification and health regulation
Surveillance
5&6 Unit eleven 12hr Case Reference
Study 2 1,2,
Major epidemic disease in Ethiopia Disease that
Submis 3,4,6,11&13
transmitted by contaminated water, food, and
sion of
others
scholarl
Typhoid fever y paper
1
Gastroenteritis
Bacillary dysentery
Amoebic dysentery
Giardiasis
Cholera
Poliomyelitis
Infectious hepatitis
Ascariasis
Enterobiasis
Hookworm
Strongloidiasis
Trichuriasis
Tapeworm
Schistosomiasis
Gina worm
7&8 Unit twelve : Disease that transmitted by 8hrs Reference
inhalation 1,2, 3,4,6, 10
&12
Neisseria Meningitis
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Leprosy
Exam 2
Diphtheria
Pertusis
Measles
Common cold
Swine flue
SARS
9&10 Unit Thirteen: Diseases that transmitted by 8hrs Case Reference
vector study 1,2, 3,4,6&8
Submis
Malaria
sion of
Filariasis scholarl
y paper
Onchocerciasis 23
Leishmaniasis
Trypanosomiasis
Typhus fever
Yellow fever
Relapsing fever
11&12 Unit fourteen: Prevention and control of food 2hr Reference
borne diseases 1,2, 3,4,6&8
Staphylococcal food poisoning (Intoxication)
Botulism food poisoning(intoxication)
Food-borne infection(salmonellosis)
Unit fifteen: prevention and control of zoonotic 4hrs Reference
disease 1,2, 3,4,6&8
Brucellosis
Trichinellosis or trichinosis
Toxoplasmosis
Rabies
Anthrax
Unit sixteen: Other infectious diseases 2hrs Reference
1,2, 3,4,6&8
Tetanus
Scabies
13-15 Unit seventeen: Sexually transmitted disease 12hrs Reference
1,2, 3,4,6&8
INTRODUCTION to STI Exam 3
Gonorrhoea Case
study 4
syphilis
condylomata acuminata,
Chancroid
Chlamydia
LGV
LGI
genital herpes,
hepatitis B
AIDS
Candidasis
Syndromic STI management
Learning Teaching methods:
Interactive Lecture
Group discussion
Role play
Case studies
Presentation
Seminar
Reading assignments
Teaching aids
Chalk and board
Over head projector
LCD
Audio visual
Hand out
Lecture note
National guideline on HIV/AIDS
Course Assignment
Presentation of four case studies: Refer to course schedule
Two scholarly paper: Refer to course schedule
Methods of Assessment
Combined score on presentations of case studies: consists of 10% of the final grade
Combined score on submission of scholarly papers: consists of 10% of the final grade
Combined score on tests, quizzes: consists of 30% of the final grade
Final exam in class: consists of 50% of the final grade
Course policy:
A student who is unable to pass 50% of the continuous assessment should not be allowed to sit
for final exam
Attendance:
The student who is absent from over 20% of the contact hours should not be eligible for final
examination and is enforced to repeat the course
100% attendance for practical hours
Learning materials
James Chin. Control of communicable diseases in Man 17 th ed. Washington, American public
Health Association, APHA, Washington DC; 2000.
Zein Ahmed Z & Helmut Kloos. The Ecology of Health and disease in Ethiopia 1993. Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia.
Getachew S, Tegegn A: Communicable disease control for health officer students, The Carter
Centre, Addis Ababa, 2006
Alemayehu M. Communicable disease control for nursing students, lecture note series the
carter center 2004
The pathogenesis of infectious disease C.A Mims, NJ.DImmock 1995
Standard treatment guidelines for zonal hospital 1 st ed. Drug administration and control
authority of Ethiopia, 2004
David L. Heymann, MD, editor. Control of communicable disease manual, 18 thed.
Control of communicable disease in man By A.S. Benson
Community health’s for students nurse by Mary Fbradley
Microbiology for the health science by Gwendolyn. R. burton
Last, JM.Maxcy-Rosenau.Preventive Medicine and Public Health Connecticut, Appleton- Century
– Crofts- Norwalk; 1986.
Holland WW.et al (edit). Oxford Textbook of Public heath, Volumes I-IV. Oxford, Oxford
University Press; 1985
Robinson D. (edit). Epidemiology and the community control of disease in warm climate
countries 2nded. New York, Churchill Livingstone; 1985.
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