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Main Campus · Arts & Sciences · Nursing

Care of Communities
NURS-4340

  • Spring 2022
  • Section 01
  • 3 Credits
  • 01/18/2022 to 05/10/2022
  • Modified 02/23/2024

Description

Focuses on concepts needed to provide holistic client-centered nursing care to a variety of clients, families, populations, and communities in multiple settings from a global perspective by incorporating theories, evidence-based practice outcomes, and clinical reasoning. Explores multiple determinants of health status and healthcare, cultural and ethical influences, sources of health information, major local, state, national and global health issues and related health promotion/disease prevention, maintenance, restoration, and population risk reduction objectives among clients, families, populations, and communities. Incorporate research findings related to the community into evidence-based nursing practice.

Requisites

Prerequisites: NURS 3112, 3320, 3231, 3520, 3221, 4390

Co-requisites: NURS 4241 Companions: NURS 4560, 4261

Offered: Fall, Spring

Objectives

*Please see the Concourse College School of Nursing Student Handbook for your program/track for more information.

I. Introduction to Community/Public Health Nursing
   A. Public health nursing practice
   B. History of community/ public health nursing

II. Healthcare Delivery Systems and Trends
   A. International / global health care
   B. Health care systems in the United States
   C. Economics of health care delivery
   D. Legal, ethical issues in community nursing practice
   E. Policy and law
   F. Culture of safety in the community
   G. Current client technology and informatics

III. Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks Applied to Community Nursing Practice
   A. Clinical Reasoning
   B. Community focused frameworks and theories
   C. Community health education
   D. Epidemiology
   E. Communicable diseases

IV. Family Health: A Systematic Approach
   A. Home Visits
   B. Family perspectives
   C. Nursing process and the family
   D. Families with complex multiple health states

V. Community as a client
   A. Community Assessment & Community Health Planning, Implementation, and
   Evaluation
   B. Holistic/multi-dimensional interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare
   C. Environmental Health
   D. Case Management
   E. Disaster Management

VI. Health Promotion, Maintenance, Restoration and Population Risk Reduction with Target Populations Across the Lifespan
   A. Risk factors for selected populations- Child and adolescent health
   B. Risk factors for selected populations- Older/Senior adult health

VII. Caring for Community’s Vulnerable Populations
   A. Rural and Migrant Health
   B. Poverty and Homelessness
   C. Rehabilitation/disabled Clients
   D. Veteran’s Health

VIII. Settings for Community Health Practice
   A. Home Health and Hospice
   B. School Health
   C. Occupational Health
   D. Faith Community Health Nursing
   E. Forensic and Correctional Nursing

Outcomes

 

DEC KNOWLEDGE*

END OF PROGRAM STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES*

COURSE MEASURABLE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

1.

MOP A3, B1abf, 3, C2a

PCC D1b, 2a

PSA B2                      

MOT C6a,7

1, 5

Examine standards of care, trends, culture of safety and other issues influencing community health nursing and the healthcare system.

2.

PCC B1c, 2, 3bc, G3a

PSA B1cd

MOT C1, 6ab

1, 4

Identify assessment strategies for clients, families, populations, and communities including demographics, genetic influences and epidemiological data.

3.

MOP C5c

PCC A1a, 3a, B1ab, 2, 8

PSA B1ac

MOT B2c, C2, 3b

1, 4, 5

Analyze Neuman’s Systems, Modeling and Role-Modeling Theory, Caring Theory and other theories needed for clinical reasoning to promote the health of clients, families, populations, and communities.

 

4.

MOP A1abc

PCC B5, 6, 9, C3a

PSA B1d, C1c, C1d

MOT B1c, C3ab

1, 3, 6, 7

Explain holistic/multi-dimensional interprofessional and intraprofessional healthcare that addresses the needs of diverse and vulnerable populations across the lifespan within legal, ethical, and regulatory parameters.

5.

PCC E1abc, 4b, 5, 12,   

G3b

PSA B1cd

MOT B2b, C5, 8

1, 3, 7

Examine caring healthy communities by assessing resources, including the impact of current client technology and informatics, on the delivery of interprofessional and intraprofessional care in the community. 

6.

PCC A2b, 3a, B12, C3b, 7b, D2b, G1c

PSA B1ab

MOT A1c, 5a, 2c

1, 4, 5

Formulate priority areas for research and evidence-based practice in the care of communities and global populations.

7.

MOP A4, B1e

PCC B12, H1, 2

MOT A1b, 4b, B1b

2, 6, 7

Describe strategies to advocate for and influence healthcare policy on behalf of clients, families, populations, and communities.

Materials

Required Textbook: Community/Public Health Nursing Practice (7th ed.)

  • Author: Nies, M., & McEwen, M.
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • Edition: 7th
  • ISBN: 978-0-323-52894-8

Recommended Textbook: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

  • Author: American Psychological Association
  • Publisher: American Psychological Association
  • Edition: 7th ed (1st Printing)
  • ISBN: 978-1-43383216-1
  • Optional