NS3320 - Community Approaches to Care

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Nursing, Midwifery & Nutrition

Available to students enrolled in level 3 of the Bachelor of Nursing Science.

This subject represents a contemporary community approach towards preservation of wellness and prevention of illness. It includes theoretical and practical issues required for a community-focused health practice, such as epidemiology, health models, program planning and community assessment. Various practice areas relating to vulnerable populations will be addressed.

Learning Outcomes

• Outline the link between the Primary Health Care Movement and contemporary community health;
• Apply demographic and epidemiological principles to community health;
• Justify the application of a framework of social ecology to community nursing;
• Describe the process of community assessment and program planning;
• Transfer theoretical concepts in community health to various vulnerable populations.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies.

Prerequisites:	NS2022 and (NS2213 OR NS2214) and NS2112 and NS2015 and PP2131 and PP2231 and HS2000 and HS2101
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	NS4320

Availabilities
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2011
Coordinator:	Dr Irmgard Bauer
Contact hours:	40 hours - Web-based delivery
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU and Other
Assessment:	(50%); assignments (50%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.