NR443 Week 4 Discussion Latest 2017 April

NR443 Week 4 Discussion Latest 2017 April

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Question

Healthy People Objectives for Community Settings (graded)

Community health nurses practice in a variety of settings. Choose one of the following CH roles and describe what you have learned about the nurses’ role in that setting (see Chapters 29–33).

School nursing

Occupational health nursing

Faith-based or parish nursing

Home health nursing

Hospice nursing

Forensic nursing

Correctional nursing

The federal government developed Healthy People as a set of national health objectives that are revised every 10 years. These objectives are very specific in order to guide and measure our nation’s progress related to public health. Please visit http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/. Click on a topic area that relates to a role you chose to discuss. Click on the green Objectives tab in that topic area to choose one Healthy People 2020 objective.

Discuss one specific, numbered Healthy People 2020 objective (not a goal) related to this community health role.

How could a community health nurse help meet this objective?

In Course Resources there is a helpful “Introduction to Healthy People 2020 website” document to aid you in navigating the HP 2020 website.

Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2015). Community/Public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2016). Healthy People 2020: Topics & Objectives. Retrieved from http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/