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...

The health of individuals occurs within the context of their environment and the other individuals they interact with in the communities they live in, work in and visit. Promoting the health of the public requires multiple strategies aimed at improving the environment, the health knowledge of groups and individuals, maintaining adequate food and water, and reducing the spread of disease. Many d...

Rapidly increasing enrollment in Canadian schools of nursing has triggered the development of innovative clinical placement sites. There are both opportunities and challenges inherent in the delivery of clinical nursing education in diverse community settings. As part of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing's (CASN) ongoing work to assist its members and ensure baccalaureate graduates...

PURPOSE Worsening of health as well as raising disability in course of aging lead to the increase in the needs for medical and nursing services. The on-going reforms of the primary health care system has brought the organizational transformation in community nursing care into the forms of non-public community nursing units. The aim of the study was to describe the characteristics of community n...

the aim of this study is to map the chronological achievements of public health over the past 100 years in a small island state and to outline emerging themes. a retrospective analysis of data was conducted from the published population and vital statistics reports of the central statistical office for the period of 1953-2006, as well as all available published reports of the ministry of health...

Patient safety, a cornerstone of quality nursing care in most healthcare organizations, has not received attention in the specialty of public health nursing, owing to the conceptual challenges of applying this individual level concept to populations. Public health nurses (PHNs), by definition, provide population-focused care. Safe practice of population-focused nursing care involves preventing ...

background: considering the school nursing standards, which is the most important and vital element of the school health team, can be a fundamental step toward solving the current and future problems of the school and society health. the present research was done with the goal of determining the current situation of the standard of the school health nursing process in elementary schools of kerm...