The course also includes a performance component where students in a field-experience setting apply the theoretical constructs of community health nursing to health care situations encountered in a community health agency. The performance component may be completed concurrently with the BSN 420 performance component directly following completion of all BSN 410 and 420 theory modules. This course focuses on multidiciplinary perspectives of healthcare quality management. Case studies and discussions relating to statistical tools, approaches to operations management, organizational behavior, and CQI implementation in health care settings is introduced. This course explores the field of community health nursing from an epidemiological perspective and focuses on the personal and environmental health of the total population.
Attention is given to group process and change agentry.
Methods of epidemiology are examined and related to appropriate nursing interventions at each level of prevention. Epidemiological principles are applied to situations that community health nurses commonly encounter in their work with official health departments. The course also includes a performance component where students in a field experience setting apply the theoretical constructs of community health nursing to health care situations encountered in the official department. The role of the nurse in telehealth is examined in terms of professional preparation and practice considerations. Nursing is viewed as pivotal in promoting public health policy, advocating for nursing and health care reform and critically evaluating key outcomes of health care programs.