Increasing the capacity of public health nursing to strengthen the public health infrastructure and to promote and protect the health of communities and populations

Kub, Joan; Kulbok, Pamela A.; Miner, Sarah; Merrill, Jacqueline

doi:10.1016/j.outlook.2017.08.009

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“…This policy aligns with the Academy's Strategic Plan 2017-2020, Goal 2, Objective 3: "Support policies and practice design that promotes nurses as clinicians and leaders in care coordination and primary care" (American Academy of Nursing, 2017). It is also consistent with the Academy policy, increasing the capacity of public health nursing to strengthen the public health infrastructure and to promote and protect the health of communities and populations (Kub, Kulbok, Miner, & Merrill, 2017).…”

Section: The Academy's Positionsupporting

confidence: 69%

Expanding nursing's role in responding to global pandemics 5/14/2018

Corless¹,

Nardi²,

Milstead³

et al. 2018

Nursing Outlook

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Section: The Academy's Positionsupporting

confidence: 69%

Expanding nursing's role in responding to global pandemics 5/14/2018

Corless¹,

Nardi²,

Milstead³

et al. 2018

Nursing Outlook

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“…Professional discussions about the essence of PHN are long-standing (Kub, Kulbok, Miner, & Merrill, 2017); as early as 1920, nurses were asking, Am I a public health nurse? (Durkee, 1920).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Larger professional, institutional, and societal discursive forces about what constitutes real nursing contribute to role confusion, issues of work identity, and ultimately, de‐professionalization of PHN as a specialty (Andrews & Waerness, 2011; Fitzgerald, 2020). Professional discussions about the essence of PHN are long‐standing (Kub, Kulbok, Miner, & Merrill, 2017); as early as 1920, nurses were asking, Am I a public health nurse ? (Durkee, 1920).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Being arealnurse: A secondary qualitative analysis of how public health nurses rework their work identities

Drevdahl

Canales

2020

Nursing Inquiry

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The Latin expression nihil sub sole novum-'there is nothing new under the sun'-applies to today's groundswell of renewed interest in the concept of population health (Neve, Hothersall, & Rodrigues, 2019). Population health is concerned with 'interrelated conditions and factors that influence the health of populations, identifies systematic variations in their patterns of occurrence, and applies the resulting knowledge to develop and implement policies and actions to improve the health and well-being of those populations' (Government of Canada, 2013). Renewed interest is evident in Canada, where a 'population health approach' is being used to reduce health inequities (Cohen et al., 2014), and in the United Kingdom (UK), where the Nursing and Midwifery Council recently revised its competencies to include population health (Lasater, Atherton, & Kyle, 2020). In Australia, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services collaborated with the University of Melbourne to increase the number of population health course offerings (Naccarella, Butterworth, & Moore, 2016), while in the United States, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) (2019) integrated population health concepts into its vision for nursing education. What has not been considered in exhortations to focus on population health is the role of professional or work identity and the accompanying tension created in trying to move nurse actions to the population health level. Since work identity is critical in determining the 'purpose and worth' of nursing (Willetts & Clarke, 2014, p. 165), it also may be useful in understanding nursing's uptake of population health. The analysis reported here arose from an earlier study whose purpose was to explore factors influencing public health nurses' decisions to obtain a graduate degree (Drevdahl & Canales, 2018). Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 30 U.S. nurses working in public health. During the interviews, study participants often discussed how they understood their role as public health nurses. Although these data

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“…With this expertise comes the knowledge and skills necessary to develop and sustain lasting relationships with community partners. Advanced Public Health Nurses are equipped to address system‐level and population or issue‐specific factors that often challenge public health interventions (Kub, Kulbok, Miner & Merrill, ). The RUCON faculty partners are able to not only navigate challenges that arise in academic‐practice partnerships; they are also prepared to properly address the sometimes controversial barriers that arise when teaching sexual health education to adolescents.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An academic practice partnership: Building capacity to meet sexual health education policy requirements of a public school system

Cygan

McNaughton

Reising

et al. 2018

Public Health Nursing

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The purpose of this clinical concepts paper is to describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a formal academic-practice partnership between a large, urban, public school system and a college of nursing, based on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's Guiding Principles to Academic-Practice Partnerships. The overarching goal of the partnership was to increase the school district's capacity to meet sexual health education policy requirements while providing graduate nursing students with an opportunity to work with a diverse population of youth during a public health nursing practicum course. As a result of the partnership, over 2,000 public school students (grades 5-12) have received comprehensive sexual health education and increased their knowledge by an average of 19.7-32.7%. In addition, 79 prelicensure, graduate nursing students have been placed at the public school system for public health nursing practicum and 100% have met all clinical objectives. As with any partnership, successes and lessons learned were identified. Discussion of both is included in this paper and may benefit other organizations considering entering into similar partnerships. Ultimately, academic-practice partnerships are an important mechanism to simultaneously meet the growing needs of community practice partners and nursing education programs, while strengthening public health nursing practice.

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Increasing the capacity of public health nursing to strengthen the public health infrastructure and to promote and protect the health of communities and populations

Cited by 27 publications

References 9 publications

Expanding nursing's role in responding to global pandemics 5/14/2018

Expanding nursing's role in responding to global pandemics 5/14/2018

Being arealnurse: A secondary qualitative analysis of how public health nurses rework their work identities

An academic practice partnership: Building capacity to meet sexual health education policy requirements of a public school system

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