Public Health and Nursing: Feeling the Community's Pulse

Nursing practice is based on the assessment of clients and patients. This involves the identification of current and future health requirements as a basis to plan therapeutic interventions.

This course will allow you to analyze the community you work in and consider how you can respond to public health issues.

This course will explain what it means for a community to evaluate its health needs and how it can help improve overall health performance.

You'll examine national and local health priorities and reflect on what a community looks like. Then you will learn how to profile it in order to make effective interventions.

You'll work with Coventry University nursing experts to identify and compare corporate approaches to community health needs assessments, as well as the merits of each.

After examining how nurses can use a systematic approach to local health needs assessments, you will reflect on how your knowledge can be combined to make a community healthier.

This course is for nurses who are already experienced and want to learn more about how they can promote health.