NUR 433 Global Health Care Practicum

This course culminates the program and allows the student to incorporate new knowledge and skills into a clinical practice setting unlike their current work role. The 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 health 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 health organization, agency or facility where the student is able to complete the required 20 hours of community learning experience (CLE). The blend of past experience with new will be assessed through personal reflection with interpretation for meaning. Discussions will reinforce the need for continuous learning and self-improvement as well as purpose and meaningful contributions to the care of patients and families. (The course requires an out of classroom experience).
MANDATORY: All students preparing to begin this course must have a current, unencumbered, and active RN license on file in their credentialing profile.