NUR 433 Global Health Care Practicum

This course focuses on the integration and practical application of community/global health principles and conceptual bases for community health nursing. Students gain community-based experience in community assessment, group teaching for aggregates, and community nursing practice. The focus of this practicum is a community learning experience at an approved community learning setting. The course requires a total of twenty (20) community learning experience hours and a minimum of fifteen (15) additional hours of community learning activities. In preparation for this course students need to identify a community organization, agency or facility where the student is able to complete the required 20 hours of community learning experience (CLE). Students are functioning as a volunteer not a nurse when completing the 20 hour CLE at the selected community site. MANDATORY: All students preparing to begin this course must have a current, unencumbered, and active RN license on file in their credentialing profile.