Arab Board Community Health Nursing Part 1 study plan

Define the scope, roles, and settings of community health nursing and contrast it with hospital-based nursing practice

Map the nursing process onto community-level assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation

Compute and interpret incidence, prevalence, attack rate, and case fatality rate from worked examples

Distinguish crude, specific, and standardized rates and explain when each is used

Draw and label the components of the epidemiological triad and chain of infection with one example each

Calculate and interpret relative risk, odds ratio, attributable risk, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values

Identify the strengths and limitations of cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, and experimental study designs

Explain screening criteria and evaluate a screening program against them

Apply at least three behavior-change or health-education models to a community scenario

Draft learning objectives at the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor levels for a community education session

Outline focused antenatal care contacts, risk screening, and danger-sign counseling for pregnancy

Describe postpartum assessment priorities and newborn immediate and routine care steps

Summarize modern contraceptive methods with mechanism, effectiveness, and counseling points

Sequence the routine immunization schedule and explain cold-chain and catch-up principles

Apply growth monitoring and developmental milestone assessment to identify faltering or delay

Plan community-based screening and follow-up for hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia

Conduct a structured geriatric assessment covering falls, cognition, continence, nutrition, and polypharmacy

Differentiate primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention for one communicable and one non-communicable disease

Describe surveillance types, notifiable disease reporting, and outbreak investigation steps in order

Explain directly observed therapy, contact tracing, and isolation principles for tuberculosis

Compare vector control, water and sanitation interventions, and food safety measures for disease control

Recognize common mental health presentations in primary care and apply a brief screening approach

Describe psychological first aid steps and when to refer for specialized mental health care

Identify stigma, cultural, and family factors that affect help-seeking in Arab communities

Outline community-based psychosocial support structures and their coordination with health services

Assess water, air, waste, and housing hazards and rank them by community risk

Apply the hierarchy of controls to a workplace exposure scenario

Explain the principles of primary health care and the elements of the health system building blocks

Describe community diagnosis, priority setting, and program planning steps

Draft a team leadership and delegation plan for a community outreach activity

Apply the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice to community nursing dilemmas

Explain informed consent, confidentiality, and mandatory reporting duties in home and community visits

Critique a short research abstract for design, sampling, bias, and applicability to practice

Describe the steps of evidence-based practice from question to implementation

Rehearse professional documentation and scope-of-practice boundaries in community settings

Integrate all domains through two full-length timed practice exams under exam conditions

Identify the five weakest subtopics from practice results and re-study each with targeted notes

Rehearse calculations for rates, risk measures, and diagnostic test statistics until error-free

Summarize high-yield facts into a single condensed revision sheet per domain

Plan exam-day logistics, time allocation per question, and a stress-management routine