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Mar 20, 2026
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NU 430 - Community Health Nursing
Credit(s): 9
This course is designed to develop the role of the professional nursing student within the community. Recognizing that society influences the client and at the same time the client influences society, the student investigates and applies theoretical concepts while engaged in a variety of partnerships. The student is concerned about individuals, families, and groups as sub-systems of the community and values their diversities within the broad context of community needs. The student applies the nursing process to clients in a diverse and multicultural society. The student continually assesses determinants that affect the health of clients. Students identify those factors that facilitate or serve as barriers to the clients’ self-management for the promotion, maintenance, and/or restoration of optimal health. In collaboration with clients, the community health nursing student will design, manage, coordinate, and provide care to promote positive outcomes. To successfully do so, the student must promote a broad range of partnerships and develop an awareness of community assets and resources. Concepts include prevention approaches, ecology, epidemiology, multicultural society, infectious diseases, collaboration, and interagency coordination. Ethical, social, political, and legal influences on the American health care system are included. Includes 9 hours of clinical laboratory per week in l in community, ambulatory primary care, home health and/or county health agencies as well as public school, industrial, and governmental sites. The Community (Public) Health Nursing student accomplishes all of this through incorporating theoretical and empirical knowledge from the humanities, natural (including ecology and epidemiology), social and nursing sciences in the context of the community as client.
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