Community and Global Health.

Catalog description

Anticipated first class: Fall 2027 Integrating the fundamentals of care for the roles of the professional nurse as a provider of patient-centered care, member of the profession and healthcare team, and patient safety advocate with Marianist values, this course focuses on community and global health concepts and skills with a special emphasis on healthcare policy, social justice, health literacy, and epidemiology, climate change, and disaster preparedness. Students escalate the impact of social determinants of health effects on both community and global levels and recommend healthcare policy changes. Social justice, health disparities and inequities are threaded throughout the course. Students utilize the nursing process to plan safe, evidence-based strategies and demonstrate caring and compassionate behaviors at the community and global levels. This course imparts knowledge, develops clinical judgment skills, fosters situational awareness, communication, and assessment skills central to the nursing process in the provision of nursing care at the community and population levels. Application of clinical concepts and skills are practiced in simulation and various clinical settings. An additional fee is associated with this course. See the fee schedule for details at https://www.stmarytx.edu/admission/financial-aid/tuition/. Prerequisite: NU 3301 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Across the Lifespan.