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Credits: 6(3 lecture, 3 clinical laboratory)  

Semesters Offered:F, Sp, Su  

Prerequisites: NRSG 437, NRSG 454    

Course Description

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

Course Objectives: The student will:  

  1. Assess protective and predictive factors which influence the health of clients (individuals, families, aggregates, communities, and populations). (T1, 2, 7, 8, 11) 
  2. Assess the health and healthcare needs of a defined population. (T 2, 4, 6-11) 
  3. Plan for the health of selected groups using population assessment outcomes. (T1, 2, 4,6, 7, 8, 9)  
  4. Collaborate with key partners to develop an intervention plan that takesinto account determinants of health, available resources, and the range of activities that contribute to health and the prevention of illness, injury, disability, and premature death. (T2-7, 10, 11) 
  5. Utilize case management principles and knowledge of resources and subsystems within the health care delivery system to promote continuing and comprehensive community health care. (T 1, 5-8) 
  6. Utilize primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies to enable clients to achieve optimal levels of functioning. (T1, 2, 3)  
  7. Utilize evidencebased practices in the community setting with health teaching, screening, outreach, referral, and follow-up throughout the lifespan. (T4, 5, 7, 8)  
  8. Integrate traditional and emerging public health concepts into community health practice (e.g., epidemiology, genetics, health planning, health education, oral health,environmental health, globalhealthand disaster management). (T3, 6, 10)  
  9. Use evaluation results to influence the delivery of care, deployment of resources, and to provide input into the development of policies to promote health and prevent disease. (T3-5, 7, 9, 10) 
  10. Identify researchable problems that emerge from population based clinical experiences. (T1, 5, 11)  
  11. Demonstrate role development as a community health nurse. (T1, 5, 11)  
  12. Students will demonstrate behaviors that are congruent with the MSU Code of Conduct, CON Student Handbook, ANACode of Ethics,Scope and Standards of Practice, and Social Policy Statements in all class related interactions.(T 2, 3, 5, 6, 11)  

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will analyzepopulation-based health issues applying public health paradigms. 
  2. Students will applypopulation-based nursing concepts in the care provided to diverse communities and special populations. 
  3. Students will conducta community health assessment for a defined population. 

Recommended Content and Concepts

  1. Intro topopulation basednursing 
    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 
  1. 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 
  1. Community health
    1. Social Determinants of Health 
    2. Rural, urban 
    3. Political structure 
    4. Leadership 
    5. Community development 
    6. Settings for care 
  1. Case Management
    1. Models 
    2. Resource allocation 
    3. Interdisciplinary team collaboration 
    4. Family as unit of service 
    5. Aggregate as unit of service 
  1. Trends and Issues
    1. Social, political, ethical issues 
    2. Economics of public health 
    3. Population distribution 
    4. Disaster Preparedness 
    5. Current news 
  1. 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. Selected at:
      1. risk/vulnerable populations: Migrant,  
      2. Immigrants; Victims of Human Traffic 
      3. king; LGBTQ+, Mental Illness; Children in Foster Care; Poverty;  
      4. Homelessness; Geriatric; Teen Pregnancy; Ethnic Groups/Cultural Diversity; Rural; Stigmatized. 

Suggested Student Learning Activities

  • Planning and providing health screening activities 
  • Analysis of a Public Health policy meeting 
  • Home visitingsafety, fundamentals, and practice 
  • Functional assessments 
  • Community health needs assessment and plans 
  • Walking field trips 
  • Community group health education 
  • Emergency preparedness modules/contemporary films
  • Community clinic simulations 
  • In-class group exercises 
  • Clinical conference discussion of case management of home visit clients 
  • Clinical conference discussion of various agencies and problem-oriented projects 
  • Reflective logsidentifying client problems and nursing interventions 
  • Web-based case-study with survey questions 
  • Current web resources/apps 
  • Public Health Emergency Prepardness Roundtable Simulations 
  • Web-based discussion of local disaster plans 
  • Photovoice/Digital Storytelling depicting public health 

 

Approved by UAAC: April 20, 2020  

Approved by Faculty: May 11, 2020