Module Components

• Overview

Topics

• Definitions
• Public Health Nursing Origins
• Basic Concepts
• Scope and Standards of Practice
• Public Health Nursing Roles

Nurs 467 - Public Health Nursing

Module 1: Foundational Concepts - Introduction

Definitions

APHA: American Public Health Association

Assessment: regular and systematic collection, analysis and dissemination of data about a community or population (ANA, 2013)

Assurance: Assuring necessary services are provided, either directly or by encouraging actions of partners and collaborators (ANA, 2013)

Policy development: systematic course of action to establish priorities, determine effective strategies and interventions, and use resources to achieve goals of community (ANA, 2013)

Primary prevention: activities aimed at preventing a disease before it occurs by changing susceptibility or decreasing exposure

Public health nursing: the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences (APHA, 2013)

QCC: Quad Council Coalition of Public Health Nursing Organizations

Secondary prevention: activities aimed at early detection and treatment of a disease

Tertiary prevention: activities aimed at reducing the impact of a disease

 

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