NU 510 - Community Health Nursing Assessment

This course provides an opportunity for RN students who hold a bachelor’s degree in another field to demonstrate mastery of community health nursing content equivalent to the BSN outcomes for the 3 credit course. In addition the course provides the community health nursing practicum experience that follows the didactic. The theoretical basis for the work follows Patricia Benner’s ‘From Novice to Expert’. The course incorporates examples of the students' nursing careers with their plans to use these insights as they move forward in their graduate program.

Assignment Overview
Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

Demonstrate professional behaviors in appearance, demeanor, use of legal and ethical principles, and accountability in RN role as advocate, collaborator, teacher, team member, leader, consumer of research, and self-motivated learner.
Demonstrate holistic-caring behaviors, including health promotion and illness prevention, with clients, groups, communities, and colleagues.
Communicate effectively and professionally verbally, nonverbally, in writing, and through computer technology.
Demonstrate critical thinking, focusing on clinical reasoning, problem solving and, effective use of the nursing process.
Demonstrate safe, effective care throughout the life span, including end-of-life that is based on management of care, safety, infection control, health promotion, and disease prevention.

Credits: 1

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