Public Health and Nursing: Healing the Community

This course will help you understand why and how to promote public health in your role as a healthcare professional.

Learn how community empowerment can engage people with public health and be introduced to effective models and approaches to health promotion.

Nurses who work in the community see firsthand the value of community empowerment in improving their overall health and well-being.

This course will teach you how a variety of health information can be used to help us identify and assess priority actions and how to analyze and identify the health needs that should have priority for your community.

It is crucial to get your community involved in the health priorities you have established. This course will teach you how to engage your community in health promotion strategies and models.

This course will increase your knowledge about community health promotion and teach you practical ways to encourage community participation in public healthcare.

The second week of this course will focus on the lower-right paradigm of Beattie's model for health promotion, community development.

Additionally, you will be taught the skills required for community empowerment, participation and development.

You'll learn how to promote health in your community and how to implement them in your own community.