- Discuss factors influencing health care reform.
- Describe community-based health care including the Pew Health Professions Commission recommendations for health care systems.
- Describe various community-based frameworks including integrated health care systems, community initiatives and conditions, and case management.
- Differentiate community-based health care settings from traditional settings.
- Differentiate community-based nursing from traditional institutional-based nursing.
- Discuss competencies community-based nurses need for practice.
- Explain essential aspects of collaborative health care: definitions, objectives, benefits, and the nurse's role.
- Describe the role of the nurse in providing continuity of care.
