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2012-2013 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog 
    
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2012-2013 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

NUR 680 - Community Health Assessment

3 credits
Providing knowledge and skills to develop the role of the community/public health nursing specialist. The course presents throughout the core public health functions of assessment, assurance and policy development, focusing on assessment. Each student will assess a community, identifying the strengths, weaknesses, stressors and adaptations of aggregates and communities. Principles of epidemiology, demography, environmental sciences and political theory will be synthesized with nursing concepts to provide the basis for community nursing practice in a dynamic health delivery system.