Master Resouce Outline

Credits: 2 lecture

Semesters Offered: F, Sp, Su

Prerequisites: NRSG 329, NRSG 327, NRSG 317

Course Description

The focus of this course is the theoretical application of promoting the health of diverse communities and special populations from a public health perspective. It emphasizes a population focused nursing process, epidemiology, and population-based assessment tools to understand the basis for interventions.

Catalog Course Description

The focus of this course is the theoretical application of promoting the health of diverse communities and special populations from a public health perspective. It emphasizes a population focused nursing process, epidemiology, and population-based assessment tools for intervention design.

Course Objectives:

1. Examine the role of a nurse in population health through the assessment and planning of protective and predictive factors which influence the health of clients (individuals, families, aggregates, communities, and populations) of selected groups and populations.

2. Determine key interprofessional partnerships, determinants of health, available resources, and the range of activities that contribute to health and the prevention of illness, injury, disability, and premature death.

3. Analyze evidence-based practices that influence the delivery of care, deployment of resources, and advocate for the development of policies to promote health and prevent disease.

4. Integrate traditional and emerging public health concepts to community health practice (e.g., epidemiology, genetics, health planning, health education, oral health, environmental health, global health, and disaster management).

Course Learning Outcomes: The student will:

1. Analyze population-based health issues applying public health paradigms.

2. Evaluate the variety of community health nurse roles for various populations.

3. Develop a community intervention using data analysis, statistics, and epidemiology.

AACN Competencies

This course will develop:

1.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the discipline of nursing’s distinctive perspective and where shared perspectives exist with other disciplines

1.2 Apply theory and research-based knowledge from the arts, humanities, and sciences.

3.1 Manage population health

3.2 Engage in effective partnerships.

3.4 Advance equitable population health policy

3.5 Demonstrate advocacy strategies.

4.1 Advance the scholarship of nursing

4.2 Integrate best evidence into nursing practice.

4.3 Promote the ethical conduct of scholarly activities.

8.1 Describe information and communication technology tools used in the care of patients, communities, and populations. 

AACN Threads 

  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Diversity
  • Cultural Sensitivity
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Communication
  • Ethics
  • Clinical Judgement
  • Mental Health

Required Concent and Concepts:

1. Intro to population based nursing

  1. Historical aspects of community-based nursing
  2. Roles - professional behavior and accountability
  3. Scope & Standards of practice
  4. Theory/Models – B. Neuman, E. Hanchett, Intervention Wheel

2. Public Health

  1. Epidemiology - causality, rates, populations at risk, concepts
  2. Environmental health, risk communication
  3. Global health - patterns of health, organizations
  4. Nursing roles and partnerships, PH Competencies
  5. Infectious Disease Prevention and Management
  6. Federal and State Initiatives

3. Community health

  1. Social Determinants of Health
  2. Rural, urban
  3. Political structure
  4. Leadership
  5. Community development
  6. Settings for care

5. Trends and Issues

  1. Social, social justice, political, ethical issues
  2. Economics of public health
  3. Population distribution
  4. Disaster Preparedness
  5. Current news

6. Selected at risk/vulnerable populations

  1. Migrant
  2. Immigrants
  3. Victims of Human Trafficking
  4. LGBTQ+
  5. People with Mental Illness
  6. Children in Foster Care
  7. Poverty and/or Homelessness
  8. Geriatric
  9. Teen Pregnancy
  10. Ethnic Groups/Cultural Diversity
  11. Rural
  12. Stigmatized
  13. Incarcerated populations

Suggested Student Learning Activites 

Analysis of a Public Health policy meeting

Home visiting safety, fundamentals, and practice

Functional assessments

Community health needs assessment and plans

Community group health education

Emergency preparedness modules/contemporary films

Community clinic simulations In-class group exercises

Web-based case-studies with survey questions

Current web resources/apps

Web-based discussion of local disaster plans

Photovoice/Digital Storytelling depicting public health