Public health practitioners prepared at the graduate level should be able to:
a. Teach public and community health nursing
b. Assess and intervene successfully at the aggregate level
c. Diagnose and treat disease and have prescriptive authority
d. Run for political office as experts in public health policy
B
According to the Consensus Conference, specialists should have assessment skills that allow them to intervene at the aggregate level. Public health practitioners have a broad range of practice areas within public health and are not limited to only nursing and medicine.
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