NURS 4560 Community Health Nursing
This course focuses on the origins and trends in community and public health nursing, conceptual models for practice, and contemporary public health problems and issues. Students synthesize knowledge from nursing, public health and the social sciences to provide holistic care with community as client. Emphasis is on primary prevention, health promotion, and risk reduction, as well as prevalent population-based health issues; focusing on racism and inequities in delivery of health care within populations.
Prerequisites
4 Undergraduate credits
Effective August 17, 2027 to present
Learning outcomes
General
- Analyze contemporary public health problems, including their scope, impact and evidence-based interventions;
- Analyze the origins, scope and focus of community/public health nursing;
- Apply knowledge, theories and conceptual models¿including epidemiology, public health, nursing and organizational theories, to community/ public health nursing practice;
- Synthesize how the determinants of health impact the health of populations;
- Identify how social justice, including a commitment to the health and protection of vulnerable populations and the elimination of health disparities is central to population based nursing care;
- Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions on the health status of populations at risk;
- Explore the role of the PHN in primary prevention, promotion, and protection of health within populations.