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NURS 417 Community and Population Health Nursing Clinical

NURS 417: Community and Population Health Nursing Lab

Required For: Nursing BS Students

Course Description: Application of community and population health nursing concepts and principles in professional practice.

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Course Objectives

  1. Assess the priorities of the community using effective collaboration with relevant stakeholders along with culturally and linguistically responsive communication strategies that promote an awareness of the interconnectedness of population health across borders.
  2. Evaluate the best evidence to support the promotion of positive health-related behaviors using messaging strategies appropriate for selected populations. communities, and stakeholders.
  3. Analyze the role of the professional nurse as a participant of a collaborative interdisciplinary community-based health-care team when addressing population health issues anywhere in the continuum of care.
  4. Design a community focused health promotion plan that meets identified needs, considers equity and access, environmental health, national prevention benchmarks, and effectiveness in the context of available resources.
  5. Consider the target population’s functional and problem-solving abilities and the intent of the proposed change when recommending positive health-related behaviors for culturally diverse clients.
  6. Select professional, client-centered, culturally sensitive communication techniques to deliver health care information to diverse client populations in a variety of community settings.

Clinical Competencies

What the students should be doing during clinical experiences:

  • Students will apply basic concepts of population-focused practice to assist a community organization with an identified need or question focused on a population or community.
  • Students may assess community needs, develop recommendations, implement short-term interventions, or develop short and long-range goals and interventions for the agency/population.
  • This clinical is done as a Service-Learning project.
  • Clinical hours: 3 credits equal 9 hours per week,135 hours for the semester.

The Student may not:

  • Be accountable for fetal or telemetry monitoring and interpretation.
  • Co-sign anything that requires nurse signature (blood, medication administration, wastage, admissions, etc.)
  • Witness or sign a consent document of any kind.
  • Hang blood independently
  • Independently pass medication, mobilize using lift equipment, any other skills that require nursing license (they can do these things assisted by licensed RN)
  • Independently receive a telephone or verbal physician order
  • Independently sign out medications from Pyxis, Omnicell, or similar dispensing system.