NURS 4400 - Community Health Nursing

5 cr. 9 hr. Day course offered every semester.

This course focuses on systems concepts as a basis for applying the nursing process with aggregate clients in the community. Special emphasis is placed on nursing care of vulnerable populations including the homeless, people of poverty, minority populations, women and children, and older adults. Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention measures are used when applying the nursing process in a variety of distributive care settings. Clinical experience occurs in community agencies.

Prerequisite(s): NURS 3200 , NURS 3300 , NURS 3400 , NURS 3900 and NURS 3710 for day students. NURS 3501 prerequisite, NURS 3200 corequisite for LPN to BS in Nursing students only.