Pacing Guide: Community Health and PopulationFocused Nursing
Week
1–3

4

5

Topic

Summary of Resources and Activities

Preparing for
Success

1. Read Introduction
2. Review Learning Resources
3. Review California Student Additional Requirements for this course Epidemiology

1. Read specified pages of chapter 9 and complete the activity
“What Would you Do?”
2. Watch “Determinants of Health”
3. Complete Lesson 1, Lesson 4, Lesson 6, Lesson 7, and Lesson 8 in Course Connect
4. Read Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
5. Identify Epidemiological objectives and health disparities here
Healthy People 2020
6. Review Task 1 requirements and choose your topic here:
"Approved Topic List Areas for Community Health and
Population-Focused Nursing Field Project/Clinical"
7. Read chapter 12 and Appendix B
8. Complete the Case Study and the Clinical Application Scenario in chapter 12
9. Complete Task 1 in Taskstream
10. CA students find clinical home and preceptor

Community Care and Collaboration

1. Read specified pages in chapter 1, chapter 13, chapter 17, and
Appendix C
2. Read chapter 16 and complete the Case Study and EBP example
3. Complete the Case Study, the Clinical Application Scenario and the EBP example in chapter 13
4. Watch Making a Difference: Advanced Public Health Nursing
5. Complete Lesson 2 and Lesson 5 in Course Connect
6. Read Geriatric care management for low-income seniors

Community
Advocacy

1. Read specified pages in chapter 4 and Ethical Cases 1 & 2
2. Read "Philosophical and Ethical Perspectives on Cardiovascular
Disease Risk in Low-wage Workers"
3. Complete Lesson 9 in Course Connect
4. Read chapter 7, chapter 21, and chapter 23 and complete the
Case Studies and Clinical Application Scenarios
5. Watch “Improving Care for Vulnerable Populations” and
“Innovative Ways to Reach At-Risk Populations”

Community Health
Promotion

1. Read chapter 3, chapter 8, chapter 11, and chapter 25
2. Complete Lesson 12 in Course Connect
3. Complete the Clinical Application Scenario and the Case Study in chapter 11
4. Watch “An Age for Justice”
5. Complete the Clinical Application Scenario, the Case Study and the EBP example in chapter 25

Environmental
Factors of Health

1. Read chapter 6 and complete the Clinical Application Scenario
2. Read chapter 19 and complete the Case Study and activity
“What Would you Do?”
3. Read "Home Environmental Health Risks"
4. Research Environmental Health and Genomics

6–8

Global Health

1. Complete Lesson 3 in Course Connect
2. Read chapter 26 and complete the EBP example and Case Study
3. Read chapter 9 in the World Health Organization’s 2012 World
Health Statistics document
4. Read chapter 22 and complete the Clinical Application Scenario, the EBP example, the Case Study and the “What Would You Do” activity 5. Read specified pages in chapter 5
6. Watch “Migrant Farm Workers”