Discover how nurses can drive public health in their communities, with this series of online public health and nursing courses from Coventry University.
5 hrs per week
Approx 10 weeks
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1992
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Coventry
Course 1
Public Health and Nursing: Drive Public Health Promotion
5.0 (7 reviews)Examine important aspects of public health, health promotion, and the role of modern nursing.
1 peer-graded assignment
2 weeks
5 hours per week
Week 1
Going upstream
- Getting started
- Health
- Why does my practice need to change?
- The future of public health
- Summary of the week
Week 2
Health promotion in practice
- The week ahead
- The nurse as a promoter of health
- Your values as a health promoter
- Summary of the week
Course 2
Public Health and Nursing: The Greatest Wealth is Health
Explore definitions and models of health, as well as the wider factors that affect an individual's health.
2 weeks
5 hours per week
Week 1
Health and wellbeing
- Health as value
- How should health be defined?
- Models of health
- Health and wellbeing
- End of the week
Week 2
Inequalities in health
- Welcome
- Introduction to health inequality and health equity
- Explaining why health inequalities exist
- Reducing health inequalities
- End of the week
Course 3
Public Health and Nursing: Feeling the Community’s Pulse
Analyse communities to understand the context and factors that impact on the health and wellbeing of your patients.
1 peer-graded assignment
2 weeks
5 hours per week
Week 1
Community health needs
- Welcome to the week
- What is a community?
- Health needs assessment
- What are health needs?
- Review of the week
Week 2
Approaches to assessing community health needs
- Welcome to the week
- Approaches to community health needs assessment
- Local community health needs assessment
- Summary
Course 4
Public Health and Nursing: Healing the Community
Promote long term health and wellbeing in the community and understand the role of community development in health promotion.
1 test
2 weeks
5 hours per week
Week 1
Healing the community
- Getting started
- Approaches to promoting health
- Health priorities for action
- Thinking about individual health related behaviour change
- Summary
Week 2
Involving the community
- Getting started
- Involving the community
- Developing the community
- Summary of the week
Course 5
Public Health and Nursing: Building a Culture of Health
Build the healthcare leadership, communication, and influencing skills to be a strong leader in community public health promotion.
2 weeks
5 hours per week
Week 1
Building a culture of health
- Welcome to the week
- Policy and health
- Partnership for health
- Leading for change
- Review of the week
Week 2
Consolidation and review
- Welcome to the week
- Moving upstream
- ExpertTrack wrap up
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