512c. Clinical Practice in Community Health Nursing.3 credit hours. Community health nurses provide preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitation and hospice services. The clinical experience focuses on the delivery of these health services in domestic community organizations. Nursing responsibility for caseload management offers an opportunity to interact with other members of the interdisciplinary health care team. A community-as-partner assessment and diagnosis project, which culminates in identification of a community health problem and potential solutions, augments core clinical practice. All students are required to present their community projects at a poster session in at the beginning of the following fall semester. In addition, students at remote sites will meet with the course coordinator at a time to be announced in the fall of the following semester. Students accepted for international experiences will complete these during the last four weeks of the term. This course is graded on a pass/fail basis. Required for all students in the prespecialty year. J. Shellman.
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