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NU 3600 - Nursing Care of the Community

4 lecture hours 6 lab hours 6 credits
Course Description
This course focuses on the community as client. The emphasis in this course is the use of the nursing process in partnership with communities for improving health. Students apply systems, change, and epidemiological theories to promote health in selected community settings. Students explore political activism as a role of the professional nurse. Issues relevant to population-based nursing care and societal trends that influence community health are discussed.  (prereq: NU 390 , NU 331 ) 
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Incorporate select theories and models when caring for the community (Level 3, Professional Role)
  • Explore how communities have historically responded to health issues (Level 3, Professional Role)
  • Apply epidemiological approaches in health care of the community (Level 3, Evidence-Based Practice)
  • Apply relevant research findings to nursing care of the community (Level 3, Evidence-Based Practice)
  • Collaborate with community groups to plan and implement change (Level 3, Collaboration)
  • Apply the nursing roles of advocate, educator and collaborator when providing care to a community (Level 3, Professional Role)
  • Analyze development of personal definitions of Person, Health, Environment, and Nursing that reflect the community as client (Level 3, Professional Role)
  • Analyze the influence of nurses on the development of health policy (Level 3, Professional Role)
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None
Course Topics
  • 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
Coordinator
Rhonda Powell


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