NURS 4010 Week 1: 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.