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This clinical course provides students with direct public health nursing practice experiences. Students synthesize prior nursing education into this practicum where they work under the direction of a clinical instructor, in more independent practice roles. They will use public health nursing skills integrating evidence-based nursing care with the science of public health and the behavioral and social sciences. Students generally work with vulnerable and at risk individuals, families, communities, systems, and populations. Students complete clinical experiences in a variety of community based settings and may conduct home visits and /or work in public or private community agencies. Students conduct community assessments and community interventions, in collaboration with community organizations. They apply a multitude of critical thinking skills and conduct comprehensive public health nursing interventions, using the Public Health Nursing Interventions Wheel to guide interventions aimed to improve the health of populations. Students ultimately apply this course’s practicum skills to any nursing role, and develop their role as nurses with a global health perspective and vision.