The Community as Partner

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce students to the skills necessary to assess and critically analyze communities. By utilizing an epidemiologic approach to public health, students will relate cultural influences of communities to current health practices and outcomes. They will explore the contributions of cultural imposition, ethnocentrism, and human rights violations to adverse health outcomes in the U.S. and the world. By examining human beings as inseparable and integral with their environment and their world, students will develop an understanding of holistic nursing principles. From this perspective, students will develop skills to prioritize, and plan culturally sensitive care with an emphasis on health promotion, illness prevention, and social justice. The major concepts to be explored are the nurse leaders\2019 responsibility in: the assessment of health practices of the community; healthcare resource accessibility; health policy making; and the care and protection of vulnerable populations. This course fulfills the cultural diversity elective requirement. This course is not open to pre-licensure nursing majors. Student must have minimum 2.7 cumulative GPA. College of Nursing Nursing