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NUR-103 route
Unit 5 · Lesson 2 of 3 11 min

Role of the Nurse in Primary Health Care

In PHC the nurse is clinician, teacher, manager, advocate and detective, sometimes all before lunch.

What this unit covers

Unit 5: The Nurse, the PHC Team and the Community

  1. 1 Community Health Workers and the PHC TeamMost Nigerians who see a health worker this week will see one of these people, not a doctor. · 10 min
  2. 2 Role of the Nurse in Primary Health CareIn PHC the nurse is clinician, teacher, manager, advocate and detective, sometimes all before lunch. · 11 min
  3. 3 Community Participation and Community DiagnosisBefore you treat a community, you examine it, and you do it with the community, not to it. · 13 min