Free Online Course offered by FutureLearn: Public Health and Nursing: Building a Culture of Health

Future Learn Platform is offering a free online course on the theme of “Public Health and Nursing: Building a Culture of Health”, as a part of Public Health and Nursing ExpertTrack.

On this course, you’ll consider the importance of strategic partnerships and health policy in health promotion and identify how you can advance a culture of public health within your own area of practice.

The need for societal transformation to improve health and wellbeing, reduce health inequalities, and redefine what it means to be and stay healthy is increasingly being recognised.

On this course, you’ll build skills for becoming a health leader in your role at work and in the community.

You’ll be introduced to a health promotion action model for transforming how society views health, and learn how public policy can be used to guide this transformation and model implementation.

Course duration:

2 weeks, 5 hrs per week.

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for experienced nurses wanting or needing to extend their understanding of how nurses can act as promoters of health.

Course Modules:

• Building a culture of health
• Consolidation and review

Learning on this course:

You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

1. Evaluate the concept of health impact assessment as a tool for decision making
2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the implications of influence, the nature of power and communication for leading public health and health improvement
3. Assess critically the importance, value and challenges of strategic partnerships in addressing public health priorities
4. Evaluate drivers and restraining forces for managing change for health
5. Evaluate challenges to enhancing the nurses’ public health promoting role

Prove you're job ready:

Highlight the new, job-relevant skills you’ve gained and supplement existing qualifications with a hard-earned, industry-specific digital certificate – plus one for every course within your ExpertTrack.

• Learn the latest in your chosen industry or subject.
• Complete each course and pass assessments.
• Receive certificates validated by the educating organisation.
• Impress employers with learning outcomes you can add to your CV.
• Make your career dreams a reality.

Course costs:

After your free trial you can:

• Pay $39 per month to keep learning online
• Have complete control over your subscription; you can cancel any time
• Work at your own pace and set your own deadlines at every stage
• Only pay while you’re learning; the subscription will cancel automatically when you finish
• Complete online assessments to test your knowledge and prove your skills
• Earn digital course certificates and a final award that you can share online, with potential employers, and your professional network
• Keep access to the content of courses you complete even after your subscription ends

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