Master Resource Outline

Credits: 4 (2 lecture; 2 clinical lab)

Semester Offered: Fall, Summer

Prerequisites: none

Degree: DNP

DNP Essentials: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII

Graduate Program Objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Course Description

This graduate nursing course addresses concepts of vulnerability and disparity in health and healthcare among diverse and rural populations. Students will examine vulnerable populations. Interactions with the healthcare systems, including access, utilization, and outcomes will be examined.

Students will address strategies for addressing disparities in healthcare.

Course Objectives

  1. Analyze contextual contributions associated with vulnerability and health
  2. Examine the interface between vulnerable persons and healthcare systems, including access, utilization, and
  3. Synthesize concepts and theories to explain vulnerability and health disparities among diverse populations.
  4. Analyze the influences of physical/spatial, cultural/ideologic, and economic/resource determinants on the health status of underserved
  5. Apply HP2020, WHO strategic goals, and models of care to select populations to reduce disparities and improve
  6. Examine rurality as a contributor to disparity and

Recommended Content

  1. Models to explain vulnerability.
  2. Ecological and individual risks for vulnerability.
  3. Rural concepts, traits, and theory to explain vulnerability.
  4. Health outcomes in vulnerable populations
  5. Strategies to reduce health disparity in vulnerable populations

Exemplar

  1. Conduct community assessment to identify ecological and individual risks for vulnerability (obj. 4).
  2. Examine health care resources for access and quality of health care for vulnerable population (obj. 2).   

 

Approved by GAAC: 3/12/12; 10/5/2015; 4/26/19

Approved by Faculty: 4/9/12; 5/2/19