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2013-2014 Saint Joseph’s College Online [Archived Catalog]

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NU 405T - Community Nursing Theory

Develops knowledge and skills in promoting, restoring, and maintaining health within a community, with a shift from illness cure to chronic care, illness prevention, and wellness promotion. Students integrate nursing theory with public health theory to provide care for individuals and families. Systems theory is used with public health theory when working with groups. The roles of the CHN generalist are introduced. Students learn how to do a community assessment with planning, implementation, and evaluation and work with a population group for the purpose of health promotion.

Prerequisites & Notes
All 200 and 300 level nursing courses.

Assignment Overview
  • Assignments: 5 Units
  • 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.


Credits: 3


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