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NURS 704

NURS 704: Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Credit hours: (3) Online

Focuses on advanced knowledge and skills to identify and manage health promotion and disease prevention across the lifespan including growth and development, reproductive health, immunizations, and healthcare screenings for diverse populations.

Course Content

This course builds skills and knowledge in health promotion and disease prevention of diverse populations across the lifespan, with an interprofessional focus. Data will be utilized to identify health status and implementation of evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention initiatives and interventions.

Topical Outline :

1. Health promotion and disease prevention strategies

2. Influence of social determinants on health behaviors

3. Epidemiology

4. Health promotion and disease prevention interventions

Detailed Description of Course

Provides an overview of health promotion and disease prevention with an interprofessional focus.  Students will be introduced to theories and models frequently used in health promotion. Data will be used to identify health status of patient populations. Evidence based health promotion and disease prevention interventions and initiatives will be evaluated.    

Detailed Description of Conduct of Course

This course is taught in a hybrid instructional format; online teaching and on-campus learning techniques may be utilized. The following teaching strategies will be employed, but are not limited to a focus on the development of knowledge and skills for critical decision-making needed to deliver advanced practice healthcare to individuals and decision making needed to deliver advanced practice healthcare to individuals and diverse populations across the lifespan.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills to:

1.     Analyze the historical development of advanced nursing practice and emerging roles in the current practice environment

2.     Articulate advanced practice nurses’ roles, the scope of practice, and professional responsibilities, including the privileges, limitations, and prescribing authority.

3.     Examine current practice guidelines and relevant resources to guide advanced practice clinical judgment and diagnostic reasoning.

4.     Demonstrate advanced nursing practice cultural competencies and effective communication skills, verbally and/or in writing
5.     Examine professional issues in advanced nursing practices.

Assessment Measures


Review and Approval

May 11, 2015

Revised

June 2023