NURS 406 - Nursing Pract: Comm

Institution:

Bowie State University

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Description:

This course is designed to provide students with skills necessary to assess and critically analyze at-risk aggregates and global communities. The student will develop skills to identify, prioritize, and plan culturally congruent care, which emphasizes health promotion and illness prevention. This course prepares the student to apply the core concepts of the Department of Nursing while providing care for families, aggregates, and global communities. Selected theories applicable to community and public health nursing practice are emphasized. Community assessment, epidemiology, health belief and health promotion models, health education, stress and crisis, cultural diversity, and major health problems of vulnerable communities are stressed.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.bowiestate.edu

Phone Number:

(301) 860-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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