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As part of the tripartite mission of education, research and practice the School of Nursing has a primary focus of providing the student with theoretical and practical knowledge related to the care of individuals as part of a geographic, cultural, and religiously-diverse community.  Many of the course offerings relate directly to the surrounding West Philadelphia neighborhoods and provide a service learning component that allows the student to interact directly with community-residing individuals, groups and programs.

Courses with a community focus are divided into four categories based on the amount of didactic and fieldwork is related to the surrounding communities:

• Community Focus – Minimum to moderate community contact
• Community Clinical Practice - Individuals – Moderate to significant community contact with individual residents
• Community Clinical Practice – Groups – Moderate to significant community contact with groups of residents
• Community/Population Immersion – Significant community contact

 Community Focus – Minimum to moderate community contact
These courses integrate the theory of urban community demographic statistics and trends into the curriculum to help the student better understand the unique healthcare problems and needs that challenge the surrounding and similar communities.  These courses may or may not involve a brief, structured fieldwork experience.

Didactic – minimal to moderate
Fieldwork – none to minimal

The following courses are included in this category:

• NURS361 – Case Study:  Breast Feeding & Human Lactation

• NURS370 – Advanced Clinical Practice:  Theory

• NURS505 – Culture and the “Isms” in Health Care

• NURS507 – Addressing Health Disparities in Urban Vulnerable Communities

• NURS509 – The Medically Fragile Child

Community Clinical Practice – Individuals – Moderate to significant community contact with individual residents
These courses offer a clinical component that provides the student with an opportunity to deliver nursing care and education to individual residents in the community in collaboration with established primary care providers.

Didactic – moderate
Fieldwork – moderate to significant

The following courses are included in this category:

• NURS210 – Nursing of the Childbearing Family:  Theory/Clinical

• NURS361 – Case Study:  Breast Feeding & Human Lactation

• NURS366 – Case Study:  Living with Dementia

• NURS371 – Advanced Clinical Practice:  Clinical
• NURS644 – Health Care in an Aging Society
• NURS647 – Clinical:  Primary Care of the Middle Aged and Older Adult
• NURS649 – Primary Care of the Frail Older Adult II

• NURS661 – Clinical Management of Primary Care with Adults

• NURS663 – Advanced Concepts in Primary Care

 Community Clinical Practice - Groups – Moderate to significant community contact with groups of residents
These courses offer a clinical component that provides the student with an opportunity to develop and implement the delivery of nursing care and education to groups of community residents, throughout the life span, through structured activities such as educational programs and health fairs.

Didactic – moderate
Fieldwork – moderate to significant

The following courses are included in this category:

• NURS210 – Nursing of the Childbearing Family:  Theory/Clinical

• NURS104 – Concepts in Nursing:  Promoting Healthy Lifestyles I

• NURS106 – Concepts in Nursing:  Promoting Healthy Lifestyles II

• NURS361 – Case Study:  Breast Feeding & Human Lactation

• NURS647 – Clinical:  Primary Care of the Middle Aged and Older Adult

• NURS656 – Primary Care Concepts in Urban Health

• NURS661 – Clinical Management of Primary Care with Adults

• NURS663 – Advanced Concepts in Primary Care

Community/Population Immersion – Significant community contact
These courses offer content that require the student to intensively and actively engage and immerse in community activities to identify trends and risks, and through research, education, and service, to develop and implement interventions to address common health care problems.

Didactic- significant
Fieldwork – significant

The following courses are included in this category:

• NURS210 – Nursing of the Childbearing Family:  Theory/Clinical

• NURS340 – Nursing in the Community:  Theory

• NURS341 – Nursing in the Community:  Clinical

• NURS570 – Introduction to Public Health

• NURS721 – Nursing of Children Clinical: I

• NURS741 – Nursing Children Clinical:  IV

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