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

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?