Course

Leadership: Partners in Health Promotion

Faculty
Health Sciences
Department
Nursing
Course code
NURS 3315
Credits
3.00
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
36
Method(s) of instruction
Lecture
Course designation
Certificate in Global Competency
Industry designation
None
Typically offered
To be determined

Overview

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