NURS 425 - Nursing Care for Population Health

(4 credits)

Students will explore the various roles of the nurse in population health supporting clinical prevention and health promotion. Students will discover public health functions, community assessment and planning, epidemiology, environmental health, emergency disaster preparedness, and global health topics. Students will demonstrate public health interventions to influence the health of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations; these will be applied in the community clinical and simulation settings. Students will conduct a community assessment with an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach. Preferred corequisites: △ NURS 400 - Professional Nursing and Nursing Success III, NURS 405 - Nursing Competency Skills and Application III, NURS 410 - Medical/Surgical Nursing III, and NURS 420 - Nursing Care of Pediatric Patients. Prerequisites: Admission to the Nursing program and ◆ NURS 340 - Professional Nursing and Nursing Success II. Grade only. Offered each semester on Winona and Rochester campuses. Note: Differential tuition rates apply. This course can be repeated 1 time.

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