NU 3600 - Nursing Care of the Community

• Incorporate community and population-based theories and frameworks when caring for the community as the client (Level 3, Nursing Care)
• Complete a comprehensive community assessment (Level 3, Nursing Care)
• Analyze the influence of nurses as advocates for development of health policy (Level 3, Critical Thinking)
• Explore societal trends and ways communities have historically responded to health issues (Level 3, Critical Thinking)
• Display a pattern of personal accountability for one’s own learning while assuming a professional role through acts of integrity and mutual respect (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Create and conduct a seminar depicting a selected vulnerable population (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Implement the professional nursing roles of advocate, educator, and change agent when delivering nursing care to a selected community (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Differentiate definitions of person, health, environment, and nursing that reflect the community as client (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Collaborate with community partners to promote the health of a selected community (Level 3, Collaboration)
• Apply epidemiological approaches and best practices for population-based health care (Level 3, Evidence-Based Practice)

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• Community Assessment, Community Theory, Public and Community Health Nursing and Health Care Systems, Change Theory, Nursing Process in the Community
• Disaster Nursing, Program Management, Power, Policy & Politics, Communicable Disease, Vulnerable Populations, Nursing Process and Community Health, Disaster Care
• Legal/Ethics, Environmental Health, Global Health
• Health Literacy and Community Outreach, Community Violence
• Epidemiology, Genomics