Population Health (PBEL)

Catalog description

This course focuses on public/community health as it relates to healthcare across the continuum including public, acute care, and long-term care at local, regional, national, and global levels. The emphasis is on the use of the nursing process to identify and resolve issues for discrete groups using a collaborative, community-based approach. Using the determinants of health, students examine the fundamentals of epidemiology and apply systems and change theories in health promotion and disease prevention/management for select populations. Policy development and political activism in the role of the professional nurse is examined as it relates to health equity. Students will explore disaster preparedness including surveillance, prevention, and containment. Students will collaborate with community stakeholders to address a real-world problem in the area of population health. Clinical experience is a component of this course.