Describe your current professional position in health care? I work in a Medical surgical unit in a large teaching hospital

Topic 1: Introductions

Read:

Fielding, J. E., Teutsch, S., & Koh, H. (2012). Health reform and healthy people initiative. American Journal of Public Health, 102(1), 30-33.

1. Answer these questions.

• Describe your current professional position in health care? I work in a Medical surgical unit in a large teaching hospital
• What is your personal definition of health promotion?
• How do you view role of government in health promotion?
• How do you view the nurse’s role in health promotion?

Topic 2: Healthy People 2020

1. Review the following:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2012). Leading health indicators Retrieved from http://healthypeople.gov/2020/LHI/default.aspx.
Work group for community health and development at the University of Kansas. (2012). Section 5. analyzing community problems: Community Tool Box. Retrieved from http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/section_1017.aspx .

2. Discuss the following in your post:

Create three scenarios where you would apply the levels of prevention.

*****These are two discussion questions, each answer should be 250-300 words with three references attached to them******