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鈥� 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