Public Health Nursing

The goals of the CPHNO are to create innovative models for public health nursing practice; identify and support the emerging roles of public health nurses; and to develop leadership skills for public health nurses at all levels. Contact any of the above Quad Council associations.

The definition and practice of public health nursing: a statement of the public health nursing section. Quad Council competencies for public health nurses.

Have you earned adequate grades with minimal effort in previous classes? Perhaps you are working full-time with three kids at home and]

Public Health Nursing - consider

A major review is underway to update the regulatory standards that underpin these fields of nursing for the first time in more than 15 years, but there is disagreement on the best way forward. Community and public health nursing have also moved up the political agenda as a result of new policy commitments to move care closer to home, address health inequalities and prevent disease. A fight is also in progress to block proposed cuts to a flagship public health nursing service that nurse leaders fear will set a dangerous precedent if it goes ahead. Crystal Oldman The QNI is among a group of nursing organisations that has challenged the Nursing and Midwifery Council NMC over its current proposals for community nurse education, which forms part of an ongoing review of post-registration standards. A backlash from the profession has already led the NMC to axe plans to retire the existing specialist practitioner qualifications SPQs and replace them with one generic SPQ in community nursing. However, concerns remain that the new proposal to have just one set of proficiency standards to cover all SPQs will result in variation in quality and, therefore, put patients at risk. As part of the same review, a model of core and bespoke standards is to be introduced for health visiting, school nursing and occupational health nursing, all of which are covered by the specialist community public health nursing SCPHN qualification. She said health visiting remained an attractive profession, but a problem historically had been a shortage of training places. Hampshire County Council wants to slice the workforce by 47 posts