Role focus-mandated by legislation to promote and protect the health of populations. Focus is on health enhancement, health protection, and disease prevention. Unique characteristics-primarily works with a healthy population, minimal contact with unwell people, may have entire community as client. Work setting-public health unit.
A community health nurse has been sent to a small rural community. The incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the adolescent population is four times greater than in the surrounding communities. A nurse does a risk assessment of the community.