Public Health, Community Nurse Degree, Program Information at Cuny Hunter College

A program that prepares registered nurses (RNs) to promote health and provide preventive and curative nursing services for groups or communities under the supervision of a public health agency. Includes instruction in community and rural health, family therapy and intervention, disease prevention, health education, and community health assessment. Find Colleges Offering Public Health, Community Nurse Degree.

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Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
Job Description
Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of both teaching and research.
Important Abilities
- Oral Comprehension
- Written Comprehension
- Oral Expression
- Written Expression
- Problem Sensitivity
- Deductive Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning
- Speech Clarity
Registered Nurses
Job Description
Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required. Includes advance practice nurses such as: nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists. Advanced practice nursing is practiced by RNs who have specialized formal, post-basic education and who function in highly autonomous and specialized roles.
Salary and Wages
Edison, NJ Metropolitan Division
- Total Employment: 19,410
- Average Annual Salary: $72,140
- Average Hourly Rate: $34.68
Nassau-Suffolk, NY Metropolitan Division
- Total Employment: 25,630
- Average Annual Salary: $76,400
- Average Hourly Rate: $36.73
Newark-Union, NJ-PA Metropolitan Division
- Total Employment: 19,540
- Average Annual Salary: $75,890
- Average Hourly Rate: $36.49
New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division
- Total Employment: 97,790
- Average Annual Salary: $82,290
- Average Hourly Rate: $39.56
Projections
- Total Employment (2006): 2,504,664
- Total Employment Projected (2016): 3,092,013
- Percent Job Growth: 23.45%
Important Abilities
- Oral Comprehension
- Written Comprehension
- Oral Expression
- Written Expression
- Problem Sensitivity
- Deductive Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning
- Information Ordering
- Near Vision
- Speech Recognition