Community, Transcultural, and Global Health Issues

Catalog description

This course explores the demands of a dynamic healthcare system that requires nurses to have a holistic understanding of healthcare on a global level. The intricacies of providing care, not only for the individual, but for the community, nation, and world offer unique learning opportunities for nurses. Caring for diverse populations from a variety of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds within vastly differing healthcare systems requires specific education. This course explores population-based decision-making, community-based strategies for health promotion and disease prevention, primary care services, as well as disaster prevention and planning. Tools such as Windshield surveys, data analysis from global health resources such as the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control are used to address emerging issues. Vital to the process are the interdisciplinary healthcare professionals. Interprofessional partnerships are vital to the sharing of knowledge, data, and resources. Competency in these areas will be achieved through the analysis of a current global health problem.”This is an Experiential Learning Course”