Utilizes basic epidemiology , public health concepts, and applies the nursing process to populations, communities and groups within unstructured health care settings such as schools or work sites. Community Partnerships and Public Health Nursing 3 Clinical practice that applies theory from NU 441 with the community as client. Develops community diagnosis as the basis for implementation of community-level interventions for health promotion in public health departments, schools, camps, and community organizations. Emphasizes the role of baccalaureate nurses as lifelong learners and consumers of research. Examines and applies nursing research and its relationship to clinical practice and theory development.
Students synthesize a personal definition of nursing based on the informed caring framework.
NU 444 Rural Practice Issues 2 Introduction to the issues surrounding rural health care delivery such as cost, access and utilization of health care services. Explores rural vulnerable populations and the role of the nurse as an interdisciplinary team member. 3 Introduces the basic theories of management and leadership within the context of nursing and health care and through the lenses of knowledge, skills, self, environment, change and the business of leadership. Analyzes issues of professional nursing practice and policy making. Utilizes the lenses of knowledge, skills, self, environment, change and the business of leadership in a variety of settings.