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 data
• Community theory
• Epidemiology and application to community Health
• Nursing process: analysis of community assessment data
• Population centered nursing population-based nursing practice: The intervention wheel
• Power, policy and politics
• Public and community health nursing, health care systems, and community finances
• Health literacy
• Global health
• Program management for community health
• Legal Issues in public health:
• Communicable disease management
• Ethical issues and community health
• Introduction to vulnerability
• Genomics in public health nursing
• Change theory
• Health for all: healthiest Wisconsin
• Communities in crisis- disaster care
• Community violence
• Environmental health