NURS 427 - Community Health Nursing (PL)

3 Credits
This course provides didactic learning experiences for students in selected principles of community health, public health and family health nursing. Students employ basic epidemiology principles and data collection strategies. The student will apply the nursing process to care for individuals, families, communities, and aggregates. Emphasis will be on nursing history, wellness and promotion as well as primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. The student will also be introduced to multiple roles of the community health nurse in a variety of settings and application to a collaborative health care model.

Grade Note(s): A grade of B- or better is required to pass this course successfully.
Fees: Additional course fees apply.
Component Co-requisite(s): NURS 427 and NURS 427C. The lecture, lab (L) and clinical (C) components of each NURS course must be successfully completed during the same semester. All component co-requisites must be repeated if a failing grade is received in any one of them.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 355, NURS 355C, NURS 370, NURS 370L and NURS 370C