Course Objectives

By the end of this course students will:

1. Experience the social political, legal, and environmental influences on rural health populations.
2. Demonstrate skills needed to communicate effectively with patients and health care professionals in a rural environment.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the scopes of practice of various health disciplines and how they impact collaboration between disciplines.
4. Reflect on personal cultural influences on rural health and compare the diverse cultural influences on communications between patients and health professionals.
5. Identify and demonstrate the stages of team development in a rural health care delivery environment.

I will meet the course objectives by actively seeking out the community vistis and completing the assigned modules in a timely manner. As a Distance Education student, I will focus my learning experiences on the Foothills of North Carolina where there is an abundance of rural healthcare. I look forward to learning more about my community and interacting with local providers of rural healthcare services.