Nurs 4010

week 1 discussion

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:

 
• What differentiates the role of the community and public health nurse from other health professionals?
• What skills and knowledge are necessary for the type of decision making inherent in population-focused nursing practice?
• How do these skills differ from those required in the institutional setting?

Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature.Post your response by Day 3 of this week.Respond by Day 7 to at least two of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:• Ask a probing question.• Expand on the colleague’s posting.• Offer polite disagreement or critique, supported with evidence.In addition to, but not in place of, the above you may:• Offer and support an opinion.• Validate an idea with your own experience.• Make a suggestion or comment which guides or facilitates the Discussion.