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Fall 2025 Lecture Clinic Distance Learning Upper Division
Utilize health promotion, maintenance, education and disease prevention in coordinating and providing population-focused care to individuals, families and aggregates in the community. A variety of clinical settings are used to offer students a broad, comprehensive perspective of public health nursing, a field that synthesizes content from nursing, social and public health sciences. Collaboration with the community and implementation of population-focused interventions foster critical thinking and independent decision making in the delivery of nursing care.
Learning Outcomes1Synthesize concepts, theories, knowledge and practice from nursing, social and public health sciences.
2Examine the structure, function, and influence of historical, political, social, environmental, cultural, and ethical factors to the health of individuals, families, and communities.
3Collaborate with interdisciplinary healthcare and human service providers to address the health needs of individuals, families, and communities.
4Utilize principles, concepts, models, theories and research to guide culturally sensitive nursing care and public health practice of individuals, families, and communities.
5Explore the delivery of public health nursing services to diverse and vulnerable populations.
6Formulate client teaching strategies that address the principles of disease prevention and health promotion to clients across the lifespan.
7Evaluate interventions implemented using community and family resources to address mutually identified health needs of clients.
8Use principles of caseload management, in the delivery of safe, quality public health nursing services that reflect legal, ethical, and professional standards.
9Apply national health objectives in planning interventions to meet the individual, system, and community level needs of diverse populations.
10Utilize health care technology to improve health outcomes of individuals, families, and communities.
11Integrate the role of advocacy into the delivery of care to individuals, families, and communities.
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