NURS 4010:The Role of the Community and Public Health Nurse

The Role of the Community and Public Health Nurse

This week, your Instructor assigned you a chapter in the course textbook that discussed the role of the public health nurse in a specific setting. Based on your assigned chapter and bearing in mind the primary prevention focus of the community/public health nurse, respond to the following: (you are assigned Ch. 42, Nurse in the Schools)

• What differentiates the role of the community and public health nurse from other health professionals?

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• What skills and knowledge are necessary for the type of decision making inherent in population-focused nursing practice?

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• How do these skills differ from those required in the institutional setting?

  Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature.

  REFERENCE FOR THE ASSIGNMENT:  Course Text: Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2014). Public health nursing: Population-centered health care in the community. (REv. 8th ed.)Philadelphia: Mosby Elsevier  (you are assigned Ch. 42, Nurse in the Schools )