Community Health

Visit the Healthy People website at: https://health.gov/healthypeople

Click into the tab at the top of the screen, 2030 Objectives and Data link and select a topic of interest to you (for instance click into Nutrition and Weight Status)

Click into this topic

Navigate and explore the Topic of interest to you as a professional nurse

TOPIC: ADDICTION

Share your findings with the entire class:

1. How might a Public Health Nurse use this website?
2. How might the Public Health Nurse apply aspects of theinterventions or actions? 
3. In what way (s) would the Community /Public Health Nurse know whether these interventions are based on evidence-based practice?
4. How can the Public Health Nurse apply these interventions in ways that consider the specific populations’ cultural ideas, values, and beliefs? Give a specific example.
5. Reflect upon the science of Public Health and Public Health Nursing. In what ways do these practice disciplines emulate the concept of Social Justice
6. How can you operationalize social justice in your current practice setting – give a specific example