Using the Artinian Intersystem Model (AIM) of professional nursing to guide community assessment and wellness promotion in an undergraduate public health nursing course

Teaching community and public health nursing students how to assess the community, state, or nation as client in balanced partnership, with a focus on health promotion, can be a challenging process given the limited time available in such courses. This presentation describes how the newly revised Artinian Intersystem Model (AIM) of professional nursing, used as a shared-decision making tool in community nursing clinical practice, can help expedite the paradigm shift from nursing student to public health nurse. The AIM easily guides users in the assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs for aggregate and vulnerable populations. A care plan template developed specifically for use with the community client further supports the student's new-found expertise in public health nursing. A quantification scoring tool also demonstrates the effectiveness of the nurse-client interaction. Examples of actual student vignettes will illustrate how the AIM has been used to negotiate with clients to provide mutually satisfying health promotion programs at Primary and Secondary Levels of Prevention.