NUR 106 Community and Public Health Nursing Practicum

This course is designed to provide a synthesis of community/population nursing experiences that allow the student to apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes from professional nursing practice and public health concepts. The clinical venues will provide students with opportunities to expand their understanding of community health nursing practice and the activities that focus upon health care promotion and disease prevention in culturally/socially diverse populations at the level of whole or aggregate communities both domestically and internationally. The Roy Adaptation Model will be used to frame the assessment of the community and serve as a cornerstone in the development of evidence based community health intervention plan. An epidemiological approach will be utilized to identify and asses problems within aggregates in the community. Prerequisites: Admission into the ADN to MSN program, NUR 102, NUR 105 must be taken concurrently, NUR 201, and NUR 203.