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?
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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?
assigned chapter in
•Course
Text: Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2014). Public health nursing:
Population-centered health care in the community. (REv. 8th ed.)Philadelphia:
Mosby Elsevier.
is Ch.
39, Advanced practice nurse in the community.
