Keeping in mind the need to have uniformity in nursing education, the Board of Nursing Education of the Nurses League of CMAI, South India Branch has developed a Log Book for students. This serves as a practice guide for students. While preparing the Log Book, board has considred the increasing demands on faculty and students from an environment characterized by rapid changes, enormous amounts of information, fewer traditional clinical facilities and less time. Much effort has been directed towards making this Log Book teacher and learner friendly.

This book in its fourth edition has been revised and updated extensively both in content and by addition of chapters. The new chapters on setting up Health clinic, Town planning, Rehabilitation and Statistics have been added. But the basic approach to the presentation remains the same as designed by the author. Unlike many other textbooks on the subject the emphasis is on the practical aspects of Community Health Nursing. Hence this will facilitate the process of skill development along with acquisition of knowledge in the subject In terms of the comprehensiveness of the content and readability, this textbook will continue to be of immense help to students of Community Health.

The text is written to encourage active student participation and thereby promote language acquisition and also nurture finer qualities like empathy, cooperation and self confidence in the students English for Diploma Nursing Students is specially designed to help students communicate clearly in their professional settings. It is an attempt to build up their level of proficiency in English through a variety of channels that include exercises, remedial measures, vocabulary games and fluency activities in all the language skills-speaking, listening, reading and writing The reading passages are carefully chosen so that the content holds the readers attention, despite the linguistic challenges in the text. A conscious effort is taken to build up the students medical and core vocabulary through real life passages from nursing journals and newspapers. The material and methods of teaching are so designed as to enhance their interest in learning English and also to develop an awareness of the social and ethical values important for life