Open only to Accelerated BSN majors. Prerequisite: NURS 3350 and NURS 3355 and NURS 3450 with a grade of C+ or better. Co-requisite: NURS 4150. This course is designed to clarify the practice, and capture the essence, of community health nursing. Concepts of professional nursing are synthesized with concepts of public health, epidemiology, and the social, physical and behavioral sciences and are applied to professional nursing in community settings. Processes, forces and stressors, such as human diversity, the environment, ethics and politics, that affect health and utilization of health care delivery systems across the life span, are assessed and analyzed. Roy’s Adaptation Model is utilized to implement a holistic approach.