Nurses Caring for and across Communities

Catalog description

This course is designed to emphasis how nursing influences the health and healing capacities of both communities as a whole (populations) and of groups, families, and individuals living within particular communities locally and globally. It underscores community-based nursing practice within a public health paradigm. It requires students to draw from prior coursework and clinical knowledge and skills and apply this practice base to communities across care settings, ages, and cultures with different experiences of equity and access to care. It provides the tools needed to engage in collaborative community work and to give voice to the community's strengths, needs, and goals. It also moves students from an individual and family focus to a population focus for health assessment and intervention. Students construct health promotion initiatives and efforts to engage community in upstream interventions toward improving health and health equity. Clinical and simulated experiences in community settings provide sufficient opportunities for clinical reasoning, clinical care, and knowledge integration in community settings.