HEALLTH CARE IN DIVERSE COMMUNITIES

NURSING 432

Exploration of population health nursing principles and practices, public health partnerships, population health advocacy, community health assessment, and identification of health patterns in populations in local, national, and global settings.

PHMPRAC 469

Social justice seminar focusing on diversity, equity, inclusion, and leadership in the health professions. Focus on historical and contemporary issues in the healthcare system and equip students to develop the awareness, skills, and applied behaviors to impact healthcare inequities at the micro and macro level.

NURSING 702

Best practice approaches to health promotion and disease prevention are explored from their theoretical foundations to clinical applications in diverse populations. Content focuses on the study and synthesis of epidemiologic evidence with emerging social, psychological, and biological science to critically examine and propose evidence-based strategies to improve health outcomes, mitigate risk, and reduce disparities at the population level. Epidemiological principles, levels of prevention, population health theory, infectious disease control, and considerations specific to health equity and ethical health promotion practice in populations will be addressed.

NURSING 437

Learn principles and practices of social justice related to nursing and health in local and global settings. Concepts include health determinants, diverse populations in complex care settings, health outcomes, and interventions for racial and other underrepresented minorities. Expand the understanding of global health by examining global health systems, health and illness concepts on a global level, partnerships enacted in global settings, and the scope of nursing practice in global health. Provides a facilitated forum to critically reflect on their socially constructed identities and the impact these identities have on health care systems. Designed to develop perspective related to global health and nurses as global health actors invested in improving health of the global population as a whole.

PHYTHER 541

Students will explore their own backgrounds and will learn constructs of cultural competency; cultural beliefs and practices; impact of diversity issues such as SES, sexual preference, disability, educational level, ethnicity and race; and the culture of medicine.