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Healing the Community

This course explores community centred approaches to improving health and wellbeing.

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  • Duration

    2 weeks

  • Weekly study

    10 hours
Overview
Requirements
Educators

By working with, and in, community, nurses are responding to the importance of community to the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations both locally and nationally. The course will help you to consider adopting a community development or centred approach to promoting public health within your work role and area of practice.

What topics will you cover?

  • Health promotion approaches and models
  • Prioritising health needs
  • Community empowerment
  • Participation
  • Social capital
  • Asset based community development
  • Engaging with the community

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Assess the different levels and approaches through which health may be promoted
  • Explain and critically review different models of health promotion in relation to your own work
  • Discuss critically the conflicts of value that may arise when promoting health
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the decision making process when prioritising health needs
  • Evaluate concepts of community empowerment, participation and social capital and asset based community development

Who is the course for?

If you are an experienced nurse wanting or needing to extend and develop your public health knowledge and skills, this course is for you.

Please note that the individuals detailed in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below, are current staff members and may be subject to change.

Who will you learn with?

Kimberley Craig

A senior nurse specialising in the care of patients with renal and urological disorders. 20 years experience in education, including in South Africa. MSc Nursing Course Director online and on campus.

Pauline Lilley

I am a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Coventry University, where I teach public health, and a registered nurse, midwife and health visitor. I have an interest in child and family health and wellbeing.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

  • Established

    1992

  • Location

    Coventry

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

  • Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
  • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
  • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

  • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
  • Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
  • Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

  • As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
  • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control

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