Mar 29, 2024  
2015-2016 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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NURS 455 - Population-Focused Nursing Practice


Credits: 4

This course emphasizes population- focused nursing practice which promotes healthy environmental conditions, lifestyle, and behaviors that improve the health of a community or population.  Students focus on community assessment, including use of epidemiologic data to determine lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors that are major determinants of population health.  Emphasis is placed on primary prevention, health promotion, disease and injury prevention across the lifespan.  Students collaborate with other professionals and stakeholders to identify and reach out to populations who might benefit from service, and apply evidence-based practice, including immunization, screening, and counseling to prevent and manage health conditions, prevent disability, and mortality.

Prerequisite(s): NURS 361 , NURS 363 NURS 364 , and NURS 368 .

Term(s) Offered: Fall


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