C919

Course Title: The Role of the BSN Nurse in Promoting Community Health

Part A

BSN Nurses play an undeniably crucial role in efforts to promote and sustain community health. To a large extent, community health happens to be focused on groups, families, as well as individuals within a specific geographical area. To be able to ensure that the healthcare needs of the said groups, families, as well as individuals are best served, BSN nurses ought to be equipped with certain skills and competencies. This course comes in handy in this regard. Towards this end, those who successfully complete the course will be able to not only embrace their role in the promotion of community health, but also effectively function as part of a larger group of stakeholders in this realm. It is also important to note that students will be able to deploy viable community-based nursing interventions as well as anticipate and competently address the various challenges they could encounter in the course of fulfilling their mandate in community health nursing.

Part B

Module 1: Definition and nature of community health nursing

Module 2: Objectives of community health nursing

Module 3: Stakeholders in community health

Part C

Module 1: Definition and nature of community health nursing

In this module, students will learn:

1. What community health nursing comprises of

2. The history and evolution of community health nursing

3. The place of community health nursing in the contemporary society

Module 2: Objectives of community health nursing

In this module, students will learn:

1. The role of community health nursing in the prevention of diseases

2. The role community health nursing in the control of diseases

3. The relevance of community health nursing and the provision of specialized services

Module 3: Stakeholders in community health

In this module, students will learn:

1. The...

The role of the various stakeholders in community health nursing

3. The various strategies that could be used in the creation of a collaborative work environment

Part D

Module 1: Definition and nature of community health nursing

At the end of this module, the student will be able to:

1. Provide a clear and meaningful definition of community health nursing and chart its history and evolution.

2. Discuss the concept of community health nursing in the context of clearly defined communities

Module 2: Objectives of community health nursing

At the end of this module, the student will be able to:

1. Highlight the relevance of community health in not only the prevention, but also control of disease

2. Propose positive change in actual clinical settings via the alignment of...

…Health Research & Educational Trust. (2016). Engaging

patients and communities in the community health needs assessment process. https://www.aha.org/system/files/2018-01/Engaging-patients-communities-health-needs-assmt.pdf

Part G

Module 1: Definition and nature of community health nursing

Learning Videos

The learning videos in this case could in this case be pieced together to depict real-life scenarios. For instance, the relevant graphics (depicting timelines) as well as commentaries from real-life characters could be used to explain the history and evolution of community health nursing.

Module 2: Objectives of community health nursing

Case Studies

These could come in handy in efforts to ensure that learners are able to analyze situations and deploy appropriate theoretical knowledge to the said situations. More specifically, in the present undertaking case studies real-life clinical work scenarios in community health settings can be outlined, and learners called upon to apply the concepts learned in each module topic in the assessment of the said scenario.

Module 3: Stakeholders in community health

Interactive Webinar

On this front, there could be need to organize an interactive webinar that brings together the instructor (as the moderator), learners, and certain stakeholders in community health to discuss the roles they play in the realm of community health. In this case, learners will get to engage in direct interactions with actual stakeholders in the realm of community health. Effort should be…