School Nursing in the Context of Community Health

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This course provides a theoretical foundation for community health nursing (CHN) applied to school nurse settings. Students acquire the theoretical and practical foundations for establishing and maintaining school health nursing services. Content is drawn from nursing and public health sciences and includes topics of health promotion, disease prevention, epidemiology, evidence-based practice, ethics, and the role of the CHN. The nursing process is applied with a focus of providing care at the individual through the population level. The ecological model is used to analyze the influence of socioeconomic, environmental, political, and cultural health determinants. ADN nurses who have not had a community health nursing course enroll for 3 credits.