NURS 5407 Operational Readiness: Military Humanitarian and Civic Assistance

According to the Rand Corporation, humanitarian-aid operations are those operations providing any type of non-military assistance to people in situations of chronic need, unrelated to a specific disaster. Examples include aid to refugees, medical evacuations of foreign nationals, and other projects that assist poor nations with medical, food, construction, and other aid. In the Department of Defense, Joint Publication 3-07 describes military humanitarian assistance as programs that are conducted to meet basic human needs, promote operational readiness skills, and may include the delivery of medical care. This course supports a humanitarian focused experience conducted within a Joint Service environment working within inter-professional teams to enhance readiness skills and expand clinical knowledge as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN). Students build upon and apply prior course content in trauma care management, advanced diagnosis and patient management, and health assessment to deliver health care in support of domestic, austere, deployed, humanitarian settings.