NURS 405 - Population Health: Community Nursing

This course focuses on the application of population health, emphasizing public health nursing roles that include the care of population members in community settings, such as a neighborhood, school, or nonprofit organizations, locally or globally. You will gain knowledge about communities and population health, health determinants, and epidemiology to assist clients and communities in making choices that promote health and wholeness. There is an emphasis on wellness, prevention, health promotion, and health education as well as a focus on populations and their environments as the units of service. Attention is given to awareness of diversity and cultural sensitivity. This course offers a beginning strategy for improving the health of the public that can be applied to any health problem in any population at any time. Emphasis is also placed on the multiple determinants of health and on using interdisciplinary approaches in practice to implement evidence-based interventions aimed at health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention.

Prerequisites
NURS 310 Population Health: Medical Surgical II

Corequisites
NURS 400 Population Health: Advanced Medical Surgical III and NURS 410 Research in Nursing and Health

Credits 3

Notes
The lecture section must be taken with the clinical NURS 406.

Compass Attributes
Natural Science