Visit the Healthy People website using the imbedded link:
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/leading-health-indicators/2020-LHI-Topics
Review their 26 leading health indicators (LHI). Identify 3 important indicators that you would like to promote as a community health nurse. Discuss why these three indicators are important to you? Identify a primary, secondary or tertiary prevention strategy that you would use to improve the health of people in the community using one of these selected indicators. For example, smoking among adolescents is one LHI; this may be important to someone if a family member or friend began smoking in high school and developed lung cancer. A primary prevention strategy could be educating high school students about the effects of smoking; a secondary strategy would be to screening people who smoke for early detection of disease; tertiary prevention would be smoking cessation to limit damage and disability.
Initial post due on Wednesday. For this post only, you do not need to respond to your peers.
To receive maximum credit for discussion questions, please adhere to the following: Include a minimum of 250-300 words and two professional references, one of which, may be Stanhope and both references must be cited in your discussion.
• Discussion Forum #2
Define public health nursing. Discuss the following three core functions of the public health nurse: assessment, policy development and assurance. Explain how population-focused nursing practice is different from clinical nursing care delivered in the community. Include a minimum of 250-300 words and two professional references, one of which, may be Stanhope