NURS 5126EL

Course content will include: values, beliefs and health behaviours of rural people, rural community health problems, special populations, issues in delivery of health care, community-based models of care, clinical practice challenges, curriculum planning, population health and determinants of health. Students will analyze health and social policy, and examine relationships among sociocultural, political, economic, technologic, environmental, ethical and legal factors as they impact nursing practice, health care delivery and public policy in a northern, rural or remote context. cr 3