NURS 456 Community Health Nursing

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.