NU 405T - Community Nursing Theory

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

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

• Describe the nursing and public health historical influences that have shaped twenty-first century community-oriented nursing practice. 
• Compare theoretical models that are applicable to serving communities and populations. 
• Describe contemporary public health and nursing theory in relation to population-focused care. 
• Illustrate evidence-based nursing process as it is used in community-oriented nursing settings. 
• Apply the concept of community as the focus of care. 
• Correlate epidemiology, disease surveillance, and public health assurances with the roles fulfilled by community nurses. 
• Investigate how community-oriented nursing policy and practice advance local, national, and global health. 
• Explain the effects of cultural and social values and beliefs on community health outcomes. 
• Compare health promotion, health protection, and disease prevention. 
• Distinguish population-focused nursing across the life span with the health needs of vulnerable groups. 
• Complete a community health assessment that draws on nursing and public health science to assess the health needs of a select community as preparation for the Clinical Capstone experience.