MU Department of General Nursing is designed to produce highly qualified and competent nursing professionals capable in delivering appropriate health services to the community and compliant to the ethics of the profession.

Roles and Functions
Upon graduation and approval for practice, the Community Health Nurse will perform the following broad roles and functions.
1. Evaluate and critically analyze problems and issues affecting individual patients, the family and community and make appropriate decisions.
2. Demonstrate creativity and initiative in leadership of health systems.
3. Employ appropriate skills in teaching and training of junior nurses.
4. Collaborate with multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral teams in the provision of health services.
5. Participate in policy making in the health sector.

Responsibilities of a Qualified Community Health Nurse
In performing the above responsibilities and functions, the Community Health Nurse will carry out the following tasks.
1. Diagnose, prevent, and manage common illnesses and promote health.
2. Plan, implement, evaluate and provide basic nursing care while observing professional ethics.
3. Assess health status and facilitate the co-ordination and management of care of infants, children, adults and the aged.
4. Co-ordinate, implement and evaluate administration of drugs and medications.
5. Promote a healthy pregnancy, prevent complications of pregnancy, and provide pre-natal care to pregnant mothers.
6. Promote safe delivery, prevent complications, assess and manage mothers in normal and abnormal labour.
7. Promote health, prevent complications, assess, and manage neonates at Primary Health Care (PHC) facility and in the hospital.
8. Promote health, prevent complications, assess and manage mothers in normal and abnormal puerperal.
9. Detect at an early stage, any complications related to child birth
10. Promote and provide family planning services to improve the health of individual families and the community.
11. Identify and meet the health needs of communities through health care approach.
12. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose, manage and rehabilitate clients/patients suffering from common communicable and vector borne diseases.
13. Promote heath, prevent illness, diagnose, manage, and rehabilitate infants, children, and adults suffering from common respiratory problems.
14. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose, manage and rehabilitate women with gynecological problems.
15. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose, manage and rehabilitate infants, children and adults suffering from common genital-urinary tract problems.
16. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose, manage and rehabilitate infants, children and adults suffering from common gastro intestinal problems.
17. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose, manage and rehabilitate infants, children and adults suffering from common skin problems.
18. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose, manage and rehabilitate infants, children and adults suffering from common Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) problems.
19. Promote eye safety, prevent accidents and diagnose and co-ordinate the management and rehabilitation of infants, children and adults suffering from common eye problems.
20. Promote safety, prevent accidents, diagnose, co-ordinate, manage and rehabilitate infants, children and adult suffering from common trauma and emergencies.
21. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose, manage and rehabilitate infants, children and adults suffering from common orthopedic problems.
22. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose, manage and rehabilitate infants, children and adults suffering from common neurological problems.
23. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose, manage and rehabilitate infants, children and adults suffering from common endocrine problems.
24. Co-ordinate, participate and evaluate activities in the operating theater.
25. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose, manage and rehabilitate infants, children and adults suffering from common mental health problems.
26. Apply principles of teaming to promote health and prevent illness in the community.
27. Apply principles of research in order to improve health care activities.
28. Observe, participate in and evaluate the activities in an intensive care unit.
29. Diagnose plan and co-ordinate management of patients in a primary health care unit.
30. Promote health services through effective management.
31. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose, manage and rehabilitate infants, children and adults suffering from common dental problems.
32. Promote health, prevent illness, assess health status, manage, rehabilitate and facilitate holistic care of infants and children.
33. Promote health, prevent illness, diagnose and co-ordinate management and rehabilitation of elderly patients in the hospital and the community.
34. Identify and address needs of the community, families and individuals through promotion of health education and healthy lifestyles, prevention of illnesses and conditions, management of palliative care and rehabilitation of people living with HIV/AIDS.
35. Demonstrate professionalism and ethics in nursing practice.
36. Demonstrate commitment to life-long learning.

Program Duration
This is a four-year program. Every academic year consists of two 24-week semesters of 20 weeks for theory and 4 weeks for practical field attachment.

Admission Requirements
Admission criteria in health training programmes have far-reaching implications in education and training processes and the outcomes of such programmes, thus, the graduates and the quality of health services. Consideration of the admission requirements to the Community Health Nurse programme is in light of the prevailing health situation in Somalia.

Candidates for direct or in-service admission into the course programme must possess the stipulated qualification requirements in Somalia, and the equivalent, especially in neighboring countries.

Any student seeking admission from any MU Department of Nursing to pursue the course should fulfil the following requirements:
1. Be not younger than 18 years of age.
2. Submit secondary leaving certificate with minimum average marks of not less than 60% from recognized school and umbrella and passed the Somali Government centralized exam.
3. Application for admission.
4. Pay the registration and enrollment fees as per required.
5. Fill the application form fittingly.
6. Successfully pass the university entrance examination,
7. Bring the following documents with you:-
a. Original secondary certificate (both from the school & the government)
b. Original national identity card/passport/birth certificate
c. Two (2) certified clear sets of photocopies of (a) and (b)
d. Seven (7) certified passport sized photos

Assessment Approaches

Formative
Formative assessment is used as a bridge between learning and teaching. It allows instructors to gather real data about students as they work, then adjust their instruction to better serve students at their current learning level. In nursing education, formative assessment has been proven to be highly effective not only for student learning, but for faculty teaching and, as a result, increases the overall quality of learning. Formative assessment used in the department include; Continuous Assessment Tests, Assignments, Quizzes, Random Assessment Tests, End of Semester Examinations and Supplementary Examinations.

Summative
The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit/module. Summative assessment include; Final Qualifying Examinations (theory), Final Qualifying Examinations (theory and practical), End of Semester Examinations, and Promotional Examinations.

Teaching Approach/Strategies
Teaching approach is a set of principles, beliefs, or ideas about the nature of learning which is translated into the classroom while teaching strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal.
These include the following; Informal Lectures/Discussions, Modified Lectures, Group Discussion, Small Group Discussions, Demonstrations and return demonstration, Role plays, Team Teaching, Project Assignments, Case Presentations, Nursing Care Studies, Self-Directed Learning, Programmed Learning, Simulations, Educational Trips, Film Shows and Problem Based Learning.

Teaching Aids/Instructional Materials
Include the following; Chalk Board, White Board, Flip Chart , Flip Charts Stand, Posters, Poster Stand, Videos, Videos tapes, Video camera, Slides, Slide Projectors, Models of various body parts/organs, Study guides, Lesson plans, Course outlines, Computers, Laptops, LCD projectors, Over Head Projectors, Human Skeleton, Dummies, Human Skeletons, Manikins, Simulators, Real Human Beings (Simulated Patients), and Real Human Body Parts.