Utilize theoretical and empirical knowledge from previous nursing courses to gain an understanding of individuals, families, groups, and communities, and their health care needs.

Week 1 journal

1. Utilize theoretical and empirical knowledge from previous nursing courses to gain an understanding of individuals, families, groups, and communities, and their health care needs.
2. Incorporate evidence-based nursing practices that will demonstrate ethnic identity, cultural awareness strategies, and sociocultural practices of clients in the community.
3. Examine the healthcare delivery system in the United States and its effects on community health nursing with appropriate nursing actions, reflective of legal, political, geographic, economic, ethical, and social influence.
4. Utilize leadership behaviors in collaborating with health team members in the community to identify the need for planned change, education of the change, and facilitation of the change with the community through cooperative participation and education.
5. Analyze the roles of community health nurses and other members of the community health team (e.g., healthcare providers, community groups).
6. Discuss primary and preventive healthcare nursing in the context of primary, secondary, and tertiary settings with the levels of prevention.