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Guide Overview

This course guide will help you identify Internet resources specific to the NURS405: Community Health Nursing course and course requirements. For the Population Assessment Guide project, you will be locating data/statistics for many different levels:

Local: City and/or census tract(s) or county
State: Nebraska
National: United States

Census Tract Geocoder
Use this tool to determine the Census tract for your assigned population or location.
Data.census.gov
Data.census.gov is the platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Find Health Statistics by Topic
Use the table to find health resources from reliable sources.

Community Health Nursing Data Collection Handout
Contains step by step instructions for finding Census data. Also includes tips for locating for other types of data.

Searching for Scholarly Articles?

For the Population Project, you are expected to use the following types of references:

A minimum of six; at least two should be research-based scholarly articles.
The remainder should be credible websites or other articles.

Fusion
Bryan Fusion is an EBSCO database that searches ALL Library databases simultaneously. This is a great resource for searching for public health articles, as it brings together interdisciplinary literature in one search.

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