NURS 4514 – Strategies for Professional Nursing: Community as Partner

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course focuses on the roles of nursing in establishing partnerships with communities in customizing therapeutic care in order to protect, promote and restore optimal community health. The clinical practicum provides students with opportunities to deliver quality community health care across all levels of prevention and to explore the planning and implementation of customized community health programs. Students collaborate with agencies/institutions and health care delivery systems as leader/manager partners in community health.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. Design nursing process to promote health with community partners across the life span in community settings with both predictable and unpredictable circumstances.
   
2. Create partnerships with communities in the customized therapeutic care process to protect, promote, and restore optimal community health.
   
3. Incorporate appropriate therapeutic communication skills when engaged in professional relationships with community partners.
   
4. Evaluate practice decisions within the community using critical thinking.
   
5. Evaluate strategies to improve community health through scholarship.
   
6. Manage, lead and collaborate with health care providers from multiple disciplines to deliver quality care across levels of prevention and with diverse community organizational structures and settings.
   
7. Adhere to ethical and legal conduct that reflects the standards of community health nursing practice.
   
8. Display behaviors that demonstrate values of self directed professionals within context of community partnerships.