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This course provides students with an understanding of the relationship between public health and nursing practice. The course covers key aspects of public health science including epidemiology, social behavioral sciences, and environmental health. The student will have the opportunity to explore the application of public health science to real life health issues at the population level including evidenced-based approaches for optimizing the health of populations/communities. The content of the course provides the foundation for meeting the public health competencies for the generalist nurse with an emphasis on community assessment, health planning, as well as basic public health competencies such as surveillance, screening, immunization, communication, and outbreak investigation. In addition the student will explore issues related to outcome measurement at the population level and emergency preparedness/disaster management. 112 clinical hours. Prerequisites: NR.120.501-NR.120.516