Promoting Healthy Families in Vulnerable Communities

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Description of the Blended Role Program        The 54/56 credit program of full- or part-time study prepares students for the blended role of family nurse practitioner and community/public health clinical nurse specialist.  Graduates are family nurse practitioners prepared to assess, manage, treat and evaluate the health status of vulnerable individuals, families, and communities. They also are community/public health clinical nurse specialists educated to plan, direct, implement, and evaluate population-based, family oriented health care in culturally sensitive ways.

Description of Curriculum      The program's curriculum  is built upon and expands two graduate offerings at CUA's School of Nursing: the family nurse practitioner and the community/public health clinical nurse specialist. CUA is one of the few schools in the country to offer this new blended role program. Its culturally sensitive curriculum integrates theoretical and clinical components. Coursework empahasizes:   Culturally sensitive care of indivuduales, families and communities   Health education and promotion   Individual/family and population based care   Healthy Policy

The curriculum, grounded in Healthy People 2010, is consistent with the core competencies of the American Public Health Association and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC, 1999), and meets the standards of the Association of Community Health Nurse Educators (ACHNE, 1992), and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioners Faculties (NONPF, 2000).

      Graduates are Prepared to:

 Design, implement and evaluate population-based health systems and programs

 Provide culturally sensitive, family-oriented health care planning

 Offer family advocacy and influence family oriented health policy and program development

 Make clinical decisions and deliver primary health care to high-risk individuals and vulnerable women/families in underserved communities

 

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Apply NOW! for the Summer 2008 semester. Scholarships are available.

Call Mary Elwood, Administrative Assistant, at (202)319-6873. Or send email: elwood@cua.edu

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