Healthcare Promotion and Practice in Public Health and Communities

Catalog description

This course provides a conceptual foundation for public and community health nursing in which the community is the client’s primary intervention focus. Students learn about delivering care to populations and aggregates using the core public health functions framework of assessment, policy development, and assurance. The changing needs of an increasingly culturally diverse population and the environmental, economic, political, and legal influences impacting the health of groups and communities are examined. Students integrate and apply concepts of epidemiology, health policy, strategies to facilitate health promotion and prevention, and evidence-based practice in conducting a community assessment and planning care for a population or aggregate. Learning activities focus on the community and provide opportunities for students to theoretically apply epidemiology, public health science, and professional nursing at the population and aggregate level. Prerequisite: Admission to Nursing Program.