Course description
Students explore the community nursing context based on the concepts examined in the previous leadership course, focusing on promoting health from a Canadian primary healthcare perspective. This course emphasizes nurses’ partnerships with individuals, families, groups, and communities to promote mutually identified health goals. Students explore topics in global health, including epidemiology, community and international disasters, and the effects of these on the health of Canadians.
Course content
Primary health care and population health
Prevention:
- Individuals, families, groups, and communities
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
Partnerships:
- Individuals, families, groups, and communities
- Capacity building, identifying strengths
Community:
- Community as context and culture
- Community as resource
- Healthy communities
Socio-environmental approach to health promotion:
- Directed toward action on the determinants of health
- Diverse, complementary approaches
- Facilitating effective community participation
Chronicity:
- Trends and issues
- Lived experience
- Self care
- Supportive care
Client-centered health education:
- Individuals, families, groups, and communities
- Theoretical perspectives on teaching and learning
- Principles of teaching and learning
- Teaching processes with a focus on prevention (e.g. solution focused counseling).
- Teaching across the lifespan, with diverse client populations and in a variety of contexts
- Health literacy
Epidemiology:
- Epidemiological models and sources of data
- Populations experiencing disadvantage
- Role of epidemiology in nursing research and practice
Emergency preparedness:
- Public safety and emergency preparedness in Canada
- Roles and responsibilities of government agencies in emergency preparedness
- The role of nurses in community disasters
Global health:
- Health for all movement and globalization
- International initiatives
- Effect on Canadians
Health informatics:
- Digital health and nursing informatics
- Information and knowledge management
- Professional accountability
- Information and communications
- Digital literacy
- Use of data standards in health improvement