Spring 2027

Population Health Practicum I: Working in the Aggregate

Population Health Practicum I: Working in the Aggregate is an experiential course applying advanced population health nursing skills to aggregate assessment and evidence-based planning.

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What you’ll be able to do

  • Define and describe a population, community, or aggregate as related to a specific health issue.

  • Select appropriate conceptual models, theories, and sources of data to better understand select population health issues or assess the health and well-being of aggregate populations.

  • Select appropriate theoretical models and epidemiological, biostatistical, environmental, and socioeconomic data to assess the health and well-being of specific aggregate populations or to more fully understand select population health issues.

  • Conduct a focused health assessment of a community or complex systems-level health issue, incorporating considerations of equity, ethics, history, and culture. Assessments should include upstream determinants and socioecological contexts, including cultural and political dimensions, inequities, historical trends, and other theoretical concepts as applicable.

  • Engage key stakeholders, prioritize issues, and propose solutions to promote health or address gaps in care through employing collaborative processes, assessment findings, and current evidence.

  • Articulate the value and challenges of community engagement and participatory problem-solving in effective health promotion.

  • Use aggregate assessment findings, collaborative processes, theory, and best practice resources to share findings, prioritize issues, and propose solutions that aim to promote health, prevent illness or injury, improve health behaviors, or address gaps in care.

  • Consistently demonstrate professionalism, insight, clear and effective communication skills, curiosity, and respect for different values, beliefs and practices.

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NURSING 702 or concurrent enrollment

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Experiential learning focused on the application of foundational skills and perspectives of advanced population health nursing practice. Provides an opportunity to synthesize, integrate, and apply new knowledge and skills and gain professional experience in population health. Emphasis is on aggregate assessment and evidence-based planning, including critical appraisal of existent data, generation of primary data, community engagement, participatory solution-finding, and the identification of evidence-based strategies to promote and protect health and well-being.

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Topics

  • Aggregate assessment, evidence-based planning, community engagement, and participatory solution-finding.
  • Upstream determinants, socioecological contexts, cultural and political dimensions, inequities, and historical trends.

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  • Aggregate assessment, evidence-based planning, critical appraisal of data, generation of primary data, community engagement, and participatory solution-finding.
  • Conducting focused health assessments of communities or complex systems-level issues while considering equity, ethics, history, and culture.

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