Community Health Nursing

Catalog description

This course will explore how community health nurses use concepts from nursing and public health to provide comprehensive, continuous, preventative healthcare thereby promoting health for communities, populations at risk, aggregates, families, and individuals. This course prepares the RN to BSN student to develop competencies in managing health status in the context of multicultural communities. Students will be able to expand current knowledge and skills, develop enhanced research and critically thinking skills with the application of these skills to the multicultural community and the global society considering the biopsychosocial, cultural, ethical, legal, and economic issues that impact the community as a client. The clinical practicum focuses on clients with diverse needs in a variety of settings.