NURS 423 - Population Health II

Unit(s): 2

This didactic course explores the role of public health nursing in reducing health disparities and promoting equitable outcomes through epidemiology, health policy, and the social determinants of health. Students learn to develop culturally responsive, evidence-based care strategies for disease prevention and health promotion at individual, family, and community levels. Emphasis is placed on health education, lifestyle modification, and accessible community-based interventions. The course fosters civic engagement, supports the public good, and fulfills USFs core designations for cultural diversity (CD) and community engagement learning (CEL). Community Engaged Learning (CEL) core objectives: CEL 1: Analyze the dynamics, strengths, and priorities of a group, community, or environment with which students engage. CEL 2: Examine an environmental or social justice issue, including its root causes, impacts, intersections with other issues, and possible solutions. CEL 3: Analyze ones own and others beliefs, values, social identities, and world views and their implications for how one defines and contributes to the common good. Cultural Diversity (CD) core objectives: CD 1: Demonstrate familiarity with the factors that create diversity in human societies, including, for example, gender, race, class, and ethnicity. CD 2: Understand the relationships among diversity, inequality, and justice. CD 3: Demonstrate an understanding of the effects of global interdependence on contemporary societies, for example, the role of migration and immigration, economic, political, and cultural globalization on contemporary societies. CD 4: Demonstrate familiarity with the historical contributions of traditionally marginalized groups to contemporary ideas, values and culture.

Corequisite: NURS-424; NURS-425; NURS-426; NURS-427
School of Nursing and Health Professions