Family and Community Health Nursing

Catalog description

The Family and Community Health Nursing course is designed to facilitate the conceptualizing of family, population groups, and community as units of care from diverse cultures, ethnic, and social backgrounds. The student is provided an experiential learning component to assess the health needs of selected families and groups in the community setting with selected health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention. The nursing process is used to examine multiple influences impacting life-course experiences of families and communities to enhance functioning.