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Population-focused Health Care –
nur544
(3 credits)
Theories, principles, and strategies of population-based health care are used to design, implement, and evaluate services and plans of care to promote, maintain, and restore health in a defined population. Students focus on population aggregates in structured or unstructured settings across care environments. Strategies to evaluate health outcomes and costs of care are emphasized.
This graduate-level course is 6
weeks.
To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.
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Program Implementation and Evaluation
- Analyze evaluation methodologies.
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Impact of Population Health
- Evaluate the community resources to assist in the resolution of community health problems.
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Formulating a Community Health Program
- Determine interventions to formulate and influence policies that affect the health of a community.
- Formulate measurable outcome objectives.
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Advanced Methods of Data Collection for Community Health Assessment
- Analyze existing health care databases.
- Categorize different sources of community health data.
- Critically analyze community assessment data to determine the level of a community's health.
- Define the term needs assessment and analyze the different steps in this process.
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Use of Models in Health Assessment and Promotion
- Apply principles of epidemiology, demography, research, and levels of prevention to the identified aggregate.
- Explain the importance of working with the community to establish priority health needs.
- Synthesize the model of health promotion into the practice of community health nursing.
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Advanced Community Health Concepts
- Describe the concept of community as client.
- Explain the constructs of the three levels of prevention.
- Compare and contrast community and aggregate.
- Evaluate major concepts of population-based health.
- The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
- While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
- Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.
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