NUR 3030 - Population Health (PBEL)

3 lecture hours 6 lab hours 5 credits

• Analyze population health data inclusive of epidemiology and genomics when identifying needs specific to a target population (Population Health)
• Compare and contrast local, regional, national, and global benchmarks in examining health equity across populations (Population Health)
• Describe the impact of policy as it relates to population health, health equity and social justice (Population Health)
• Identify a needed policy change and appropriate measures to support change (Population Health)
• Demonstrate the nurse’s role in preparation and mitigation of natural and man-made environmental disasters and disease outbreaks (Population Health)
• Apply systems and change theories and the nursing process to identify a plan to address health inequities for a select population (Clinical Judgment)
• Prioritize interventions to promote health for specific populations that are effective and efficient within the context of available resources (Clinical Judgment)
• Implement the professional role of advocate, educator and change agent when delivering nursing care to a select population (Professional Role, Communication) 
• Explore one’s own implicit bias when caring for individuals from a select population (Person-Centered Care, Professional Role)
• Display a pattern of personal accountability for one’s own learning while assuming a professional role through acts of integrity and mutual respect (Professional Role)
• Examine alternative methods for delivery of health care including primary health and primary care, tele-health, and mobile health to increase access and promote health for select populations (Evidence-Based Practice, Informatics and Healthcare Technologies)
• Collaborate with community partners and stakeholders to promote health for a select population (Collaboration)

• None

• Community health nursing
• Nurses’ roles in the community
• Population centered nursing
• Community theory
• Nursing process in the community
• Social determinants of health
• Local, regional, and global health care
• Power, policy, and advocacy
• Health equity and social justice
• Legal issues in public health
• Communicable and infectious diseases
• Epidemics and pandemics
• Ethical issues in public health
• Epidemiology and application to community health
• Community assessment data
• Promoting healthy communities
• Promoting population health across the lifespan
• Promoting and protecting the health of vulnerable populations
• Use of telehealth and mobile health in the population
• Community violence
• Program management for community health
• Genomics in public health nursing
• Disaster management
• Environmental health
• Climate change
• MSOE project-based experiential learning