NURS 493A

Community Health Nursing

Units: 1.5

The theoretical and conceptual foundations of community health nursing practice. Students will explore and critique nurses' roles in community health nursing, particularly in public health and in primary health care settings. Provides opportunities to advance and/or to add to your nursing knowledge and experience. Community health assessment, individual health assessment, population-focused practice, epidemiology, communicable disease control, and health-promoting practice with specific populations and in relation to specific health issues are explored and critiqued.

Prerequisites: Continuing students: completion of Term 6, or permission of the department.

Undergraduate course in Nursing offered by the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Human and Social Development.