The Public Health Nursing Service (SESP) of Clinicas Hospital (HCPA) celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2012 and was a pioneer in implementing outpatient nursing consultation. SESP was organized taking into consideration infrastructure to plan nursing care based on the policy in effect and the needs of the community(1). At that time, it was a huge challenge, since there were few models for outp...

Internationally, the polyclinic has been a feature of many health systems. The recent UK policy shift towards enhanced coordination of care closer to home resulted in the development of polyclinics most notably in London. This paper explores the background to the development of polyclinics and draws on the early experience of developments in London to explore what their impact has been, and is ...

The Henry Street Consortium, a collaboration of nurse educators from universities and colleges and public health nurses (PHNs) from government, school, and community agencies, developed 11 population-based competencies for educating nursing students and the novice PHN. Although many organizations have developed competency lists for experts, the Consortium developed a set of competencies that cl...

This study examined whether students' attitudes about community health practice, attitudes toward people who are indigent and homeless, and perceived leadership skills changed after participation in a planned interdisciplinary community health experience with an urban homeless or formerly homeless population. Data were collected from medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, an...

In the summer of 2020, during height civil unrest across our nation, American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) launched Diversity and Belonging Committee. The committee’s vision is to unleash potential a diverse united nurse leader community. Through research, education, advocacy, team aims create nursing community culture where all nurses health care workers can thrive.

OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of a Social Health Maintenance Organization (S/HMO) on diverting older adults admitted into a nursing facility from converting to long-stay placement. DESIGN Members of the SCAN S/HMO and those in Medicare Fee-For-Service were compared on successful discharge to the community after being admitted to nursing facilities between January 1, 2001, and December 31...

Background: The existence of a gap between theory and practice in nursing is a problem that is rooted in the history of nursing education, which means that there is a difference between what the student at the college and the behavior that appears in the clinic, and this discrepancy is of concern to community health educators. A coherent understanding of the learning and practice gap is a cruci...

Selected Journal Articles Source Strategy Take-Home Message Abeggien, J. & Conger, C. (1997). Critical thinking in nursing: classroom tactics that work. Journal of Nursing Education, 36, 452-458. Multiple strategies were presented within the context of one Community Health nursing course. This article essentially describes the development of a CT format for a course. CT activities described inc...