Course Information
Line Number 404660
Course Name NUR466 - Community Health Nursing (Clinical)
Course Description
The course provides practice essential to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of clients across the lifespan in the community-individuals, families, groups, and the community itself. Emphasis is on the study and application of nursing role components inherent in community health for health promotion, and disease prevention based on the concepts of primary health care, self-care and home health care. Clinical practice is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to observe, participate and function independently, to explore nursing skills and techniques related to health promotion, health maintenance and health restoration and disease prevention among the target aggregates in primary health care settings (clinics , homes and schools). Students are directed toward application of the nursing process through applying primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of disease for clients in community setting.