NRSE 4540 - Community Health Nursing

• Analyze evaluation results to influence the delivery of care, deployment of resources, and input into the development of policies to promote health and prevent disease.
• Apply Healthy People goals and objectives to population-based problems.
• Assess health/illness beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
• Assess protective and predictive factors, including genetics, which influence the health of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
• Assess the health, healthcare, and emergency preparedness needs of a defined population.
• Conduct a health history, including environmental exposure and a family history that recognizes genetic risks, to identify current and future health problems.
• Examine evidence-based practices to guide health teaching, health counseling, screening, outreach, disease and outbreak investigation, referral, and followup throughout the lifespan.
• Explore collaboration with other healthcare professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion, and disease and injury prevention interventions.
• Explore methods nurses can employ to affect political action on the health policies of their communities and nation.
• Explore use of information and communication technologies in preventive care.
• Utilize epidemiological methods to describe the state of a specific health problem of a community population.