introduction: certainly, personal health or social health issues are the most important aspects of human life. health is an essential condition for social roles and activities and is an essential condition for social roles and activities in people. lifestyle is a combination of individual behavioral patterns and habits that is created throughout socialization processes, by personal interaction ...

BACKGROUND With limited available public health nursing clinical placements, nurse educators are challenged to create alternative learning experiences that engage students. METHOD Nursing faculty developed three Second Life® virtual learning scenarios in family health, disaster preparedness, and home safety areas of interest as a supplement to clinical experiences for undergraduate senior nur...

A serious shortage of hospital nurses in the U.S., evident in the past decade, is expected to continue and worsen in the next 15 years. Increasingly, the public and the health professions are acknowledging that nurse understaffing represents a serious threat to patient safety in U.S. hospitals. Although anecdotal evidence has linked patient deaths to inadequate nurse staffing, the numbers and k...

Attrition in the public health nursing work force combined with a lack of faculty to teach public health prompted development of a "long-distance" learning project. Practicing associate degree nurses enrolled in an online course in population-based practice worked with experienced public health nurse "e-mentors." Student-mentor pairs worked through course assignments, shared public health nursi...

The public health nurse has become an essential link in bringing the science of public health to the community. The significance of the development of this branch of the nursing profession is emphasized by a broadened objective, from the care of the sick poor in their homes to the present concept of community nursing, embracing those services which prevent and relieve sickness, prolong life, an...

BACKGROUND The Nurse-Family Partnership is a home visitation program for first-time, socially and economically disadvantaged mothers. The effectiveness of this public health intervention has been well established in the United States; however, whether the same beneficial outcomes will be obtained within the Canadian context is unknown. As part of the British Columbia Healthy Connections Project...

background: working in managerial posts, nurses need to know the management concepts and skills such as change management. this knowledge can improve the quality of patients care. this research was a study on the change concept by describing the nursing managers' experiences as an agent for change. methods: it was a qualitative research based on phenomenology. data were collected from matron nu...

a b s t r a c t mortality and morbidity from trauma continues to be a serious, ubiquitous public health problem. our short communication reports on the benefits of a dedicated lower limb trauma coordinator (lltc) to the trauma service of a busy inner-london plastics unit. this is based on a retrospective case-note based audit; performed 19 months prior to the introduction of the lltc and for 16...

A Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium outbreak was associated with a veterinary clinic. Confirmed cases were in one cat, two veterinary technicians, four persons associated with clinic patients, and a nurse not linked to the clinic. This outbreak emphasizes the importance of strong public health ties to the animal health community.

Current NHS policy highlights the importance of public health as a strategy to reduce health inequalities and to promote the health of communities, and nurses are recognised as key contributors to the public health function. Changes are also taking place in pre- and post-registration nurse education curricula, in the wake of recent education policy recommendations. However, progress towards eff...