Community Public Health Nurs

Catalog description

Emphasis is on the knowledge and skills required to practice community/public health nursing within the context of population health. The student begins to examine the expanding focus of the nursing process in the various roles of the community/public health nurse with attention to holistic nursing appropriate for optimal community and population health outcomes. The significance of primary, secondary and tertiary levels of prevention and implementing health promotion activities for individuals, families, communities, and population aggregates are addressed. Various environmental, ethical, cultural, legal, financial issues related to quality and safety and community/public/population health are explored. Student must have minimum 2.7 cumulative GPA. Prerequisites: NURS362 and NURS363 and NURS366 and NURS367 and NURS370 and NURS381 and NURS382 and NURS383 and NURS384 Co-requisites: NURS469 Course Attributes: Population Health College of Nursing Nursing