NUR 4003 Community Health
The purpose of this course is to examine and understand the role of community health nursing and its responsibilities to patients within the healthcare setting. This course will focus on the concepts associated to community nursing related to documentation, communication, ethics, culture, and the legal aspects of patient care. The emphasis of this course will be on long term and/or skilled nursing, home health, day care, respite care, residential care, palliative care including Hospice, Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), and hospital outpatient care. The course will also describe the Public Health Nurse and the roles of the nurse in the protection and provision for the safety of communities at large. Descriptions will also include funding sources, person-centered care, respect for patient preferences, coordination of patient care, and patient and family involvement and support. Additionally, the course includes critical thinking and clinical decision making related to psychological concepts, critical concepts, acute concepts, and interventional concepts associated states of wellness, illness, and disease processes in the community setting. This course is limited to nursing/healthcare students or with permission of instructor.
Offered
Every Fall