The course provides practice essential to the assessment, planning, implementation & evaluation of clients across the lifespan in the community-individuals, families, groups, & the community itself. Emphasis is on the study & application of nursing role components inherent in community health for health promotion, & disease prevention based on the concepts of primary health care, self-care, & home health care. Clinical practice is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to observe, participate & function independently, to explore nursing skills & techniques related to health promotion, health maintenance, & health restoration & disease prevention among the target aggregates in primary health care settings (clinics, homes, & schools). Students are directed toward the application of the nursing process through applying primary, secondary, & tertiary prevention of disease for clients in a community setting.