Community Health Nursing

1. Design the nursing process to promote health with community partners across the life span in community settings with both predictable and unpredictable circumstances.

2. Create partnerships with communities in the customized therapeutic care process to protect, promote, and restore optimal community health.

3. Analyze practice decisions within the community utilizing critical thinking.

4. Evaluate strategies to improve community health through scholarship.

5. 8. Develop and exhibit self-directed behaviors in the community health setting.

6. 9. Demonstrate behaviors that are professional in nature in accordance with the American Nurses Association and the Texas Board of Nursing (Essential VIII)

Experiential Learning Practice Objectives:

1. Demonstrate cultural sensitivity when formulating customized therapeutic nursing care with the community.

5. Demonstrate leadership, initiative and professionalism in the community health setting and demonstrate accountability for behavior.

6. Seek appropriate assistance and utilize guidance to facilitate own learning.

7. Demonstrate behaviors that are professional in nature in accordance with the American Nurses Association and the Texas Board of Nursing (Essential VIII)

Assignment Goal:

The students will be able to analyze critical data to identify health threats and risks in their assigned community.

Assignment Objectives:

1. The student will locate demographic data and vital statistics that relate to the assigned community.

2. The student will summarize the collected data

3. The student will identify 2 strengths and weaknesses of the community based on the summary

4. The students will formulate a nursing diagnosis based upon the analysis of the data.