Description
The focus of this course is on the health of the community and subgroups within the community. Students learn to integrate nursing and public health concepts to promoting and restoring the health of population groups while examining various roles of the community/public health nurse. Selected community health problems and their implications for community health nursing practice are considered. Emphasis is placed on identifying determinants of health, advocating for vulnerable populations, prioritizing primary prevention and utilizing available resources to improve the health of populations. Clinical application will provide students an opportunity to provide nursing care to aggregates of populations within a public health nursing model. (4 s.h.)