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NURS 456 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Nursing

This course focuses on the origins and trends in community and public health nursing, conceptual models for practice, and contemporary public health problems and issues. Students synthesize knowledge from nursing, public health and the social sciences to provide holistic care with community as client. Emphasis is on primary prevention, health promotion, and risk reduction, as well as prevalent population-based health issues; focusing on racism and inequities in delivery of health care within populations.

Prerequisites

Special information

Prerequisite: Admitted to the RN-BSN program. Co-Requisites: NURS 456P.
4 Undergraduate credits

Effective August 16, 2017 to present

Meets graduation requirements for

Learning outcomes

General

  • Analyze contemporary public health problems, including their scope, impact and evidence-based interventions;
  • Analyze the origins, scope and focus of community/public health nursing;
  • Apply knowledge, theories and conceptual models¿including epidemiology, public health, nursing and organizational theories, to community/ public health nursing practice;
  • Synthesize how the determinants of health impact the health of populations;
  • Identify how social justice, including a commitment to the health and protection of vulnerable populations and the elimination of health disparities is central to population based nursing care;
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions on the health status of populations at risk;
  • Explore the role of the PHN in primary prevention, promotion, and protection of health within populations.

Spring 2025

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50 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Nursing Morrison, Leslie Faith

Summer 2025

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50 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Nursing Bredesen, Joyce
51 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Nursing Staff, Staff

Fall 2025

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01 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Nursing Schoon, Pat