This course emphasizes the theories and practice of public, health nursing. The focus of care is on populations, and the provision of care includes individuals, families, communities, aggregates, systems and populations. Students synthesize their nursing education and apply new skills and knowledge towards population perspective. The course emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention, using public health sciences of epidemiology, environmental health, health policy, community assessment, and community interventions. The three-core public health functions assurance, assessment, and policy development are used as a framework. Important current top is presented to illustrate public health nursing concepts. The Public Health Nursing Interventions wheel is the framework used to describe interventions for nursing practice
