Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning: Course Outline
Brianna Crosby
College of Health Professions, Western Governors
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C919: Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning
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May 20th, 2021
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Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning: Course Outline
The course titled The Role of the BSN Nurse in Promoting Community Health Course
has eight weekly topics with supporting concepts. Each week an evidence-based active learning
strategy will be utilized. The course will educate student nurses on community health and
nursing practice, determinants of health, health and healthcare disparities, principles of
epidemiology, community assessment, health literacy, optimizing population health, and health
planning and promotion.
Aspects of the Course
The learner would benefit from the course “The Role of the BSN Nurse in
Promoting Community Health” for many different reasons. The education on community
health teaches the learner what we do as a society affects the
conditions of a community’s health and how to improve outcomes of the population. The Public
Health Nurse helps address public health interests and issues by using evidence-based practice
models.
The specific concepts within this course will allow the learner to understand the public
health system and better understand the Community Health Nurse’s role. Many factors
affect community health, such as physical, biological, socioeconomic, and
sociocultural factors. It is essential to engage the learner in concepts such as the public health
nurse’s role, influence of determinants on health, disparities, environmental health, nurses role in
health literacy, identification of key health needs, screening, and prevention.
teaching of communicable disease, mental health, and health planning for older adults.
A course, The Role of the BSN Nurse in Promoting Community Health is relevant to
professional nursing practice because all nurses contribute to the health of the community. This
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course will teach BSN students how to impact the community they serve positively. This course
will teach how to look at the community as a whole and raise questions about overall
health. Using evidence-based student-centered active learning strategies such as lectures with
group discussions, group assignments, problem-based learning, case studies, concept maps,
posters, and interprofessional education will facilitate learning. These concepts align with
professional standards/competencies of the American Association of Colleges
of Nursing’s (AACN) Public Health: Recommended Baccalaureate Competencies and Curricular
Guidelines for Public Health Nursing (AACN, 2013).
Cultivation of Course
Within The role of the BSN nurse in promoting community health course, eight weekly
key concepts encourage students in learning. These weekly course module
topics include community health and nursing practice, determinants of health, health and
health care disparities, environmental health, community
assessment, health literacy, optimizing population health, and health planning and
promotion. These eight weekly course module topics will cultivate the development of the
course. The courses were placed in this order to build off one another. The knowledge learned
from previous modules must help the understanding of the next module. This will
increase knowledge as time progresses.
The course will begin with community health and nursing practice. The community
health nurse's role is vital to review so the learner can understand how they impact the
community. Determinants of health will be presented in week two. Once the student understands
a generalization of their role, teaching of how determinants, such as socioeconomic [Show Less]