NURS8120 - Health Promotion/Clinical Prev

This course provides the student the opportunity to utilize previous learned knowledge in the application of preventive health concepts and health promotion principles across the life span to specific populations. Healthy People 2020 and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines that should be offered to patients as part of on-going personal health care is the evidence-based practice emphasized. Students are introduced to physiological and psychological preventive health principles as well as lifestyle behavior modification. Specific content includes counseling about personal health behaviors, screening tests for early detection of risk factors and disease, immunizations, and chemoprophylactic regimens offered to patients before they develop clinical evidence of disease.
3 Credits