Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to public health nursing practice
  • Evidence-based public health nursing practice
  • Competency 1 : applies the public health nursing process to communities, systems, individuals, and families
  • Competency 2 : utilizes basic epidemiological principles (the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population) in public health nursing practice
  • Competency 3 : utilizes the principles and science of environmental health to promote safe and sustainable environments for individuals, families, systems, and communities
  • Competency 4 : practices public health nursing within the auspices of the nurse practice act
  • Competency 5 : works within the responsibility and authority of the governmental public health system
  • Competency 6 : utilizes collaboration to achieve public health goals
  • Competency 7 : effectively communicates with communities, systems, individuals, families, and colleagues
  • Competency 8 : establishes and maintains caring relationships with communities, systems, individuals, and families
  • Competency 9 : incorporates mental, physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental aspects of health into assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation
  • Competency 10 : demonstrates nonjudgmental and unconditional acceptance of people different from self
  • Competency 11 : shows evidence of commitment to social justice, the greater good, and the public health principles
  • Competency 12 : demonstrates leadership in public health nursing with communities, systems, individuals, and families
  • Putting it all together : what it means to be a public health nurse.