Practice Characteristics

APCHSN graduates are prepared to:

1. Assess the health status and determinants of community health, including demographic trends, cultural, psychosocial, economic, political, ethical, and spiritual factors.
   
2. Examine the lived experiences of people or residents of a community reflected in their language, images and symbols to better understand them within the context of their lives.
   
3. Apply concepts from nursing science and the natural, social, behavioral and public health sciences in analyzing health needs and resources for communities, and selected aggregates and high risk populations within communities.
   
4. Promote and establish community partnerships that recognize the importance of capacity building and advocacy as means to improved social and health conditions.
   
5. Develop leadership and management skills in order to achieve effectiveness in the mobilization of resources and the sustainable development of communities through programs and policies.
   
6. Evaluate the quality of outcomes of community health nursing programs and interventions according to developed criteria and in relation to the sociocultural, political, legal and economic forces that influence care in the community.

Ethnic Food Projects in Highline School District