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..In part this may be due to stigmatising views of mental illness, which negatively influence help-seeking and user experiences. Likewise providers' attitudes are likely to play a significant part in the management of such problems...

..Also, the project is expected to disseminate the results provincially, nationally, and internationally. Most of the reviews are relevant to public health nursing practice.

..University of Kentucky College of Nursing entered into a collaborative partnership to provide an enhanced public health nursing experience for a select group of undergraduate students...

b>Public health nursing needs to build a practice on research-based knowledge. Public health guidelines are one strategy to achieve this goal...

b>Public health nursing (PHN) practice is defined by an emphasis on population health issues rather than individually focused clinical interventions, but the actual scope and focus of PHN practice have not been well documented...

PURPOSE: Changes in public health nursing education have been consideration. Theses changes include a dramatic increase in the number of public health nurses (PHNs) who have enrolled for nursing courses at university...

..expansion of traditional educational approaches and curriculum to prepare a futuristic advanced practice public health nursing (APPHN) workforce...

This paper describes the development and initial testing of an instrument to measure population-based public health nursing competencies...

b>Public health nursing was the term Lillian Wald used to describe the work of nurses whose role it was to address both the immediate impact of sickness and the underlying relationship between poverty, social disadvantage, environmental ..

Explaining the content of public health nursing practice is not a new phenomenon...

..Nurses who completed the course reported greater experience with and an understanding of population health competencies...

..The importance of establishing a method for ongoing measurement of PHN job satisfaction was underscored by changing directions in practice and an emphasis on building public health capacity...

..Finally, a model is offered to illustrate the reciprocal influence of nursing science and public health nursing practice.

..Social exchange theory is potentially useful for understanding client-nurse interaction in the context of maternal-child home visits...

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..essencial that further education or specialization is needed, in order that they could practice independently or as members of the primary health care teams effectively, and be able to respond to public health needs of the population..

..Initiatives to address community health nurses' concerns, improve their job satisfaction, and increase their retention will require interventions tailored to the specific community health care setting...

..Many in public health nursing (PHN) have welcomed this shift, recognizing the important role PHN can play in promoting health and ..

This paper is concerned with aspects of responsibility in Norwegian public health nursing. Public health nursing is an expansive profession with diffuse boundaries...

..The aim of this study was to explore public health nurses' reflections on client supervision...

..The information derived from the study provides a knowledge base that can be used to provide guidance and direction to the content of occupational health nursing programs...

..Collaboration between nurses and nursing students from a variety of educational backgrounds may enhance learning and program success...

..Building a user-friendly environment is important in developing this new media model of learning for the future...

..District nurses had ambivalent attitudes to palliative chemotherapy but had positive attitudes towards optimizing quality of life and care in the palliative stages of illness...

..In order to realize the potential contribution of district nurses in mental health interventions, there is a need for primary care teams to foster a closer working relationship with mental health specialist services...

..Educational deficits relating to long-term conditions and district nurses were discovered, indicating that educational and clinical leadership is paramount in order to meet the needs of this group of patients...

..The majority of nurses thought that the GPCF's contribution was important. The use of local palliative care guidelines increased significantly among district nurses by the end of the project...

..003). CONCLUSIONS: Results support the use of an in-service program as an effective method of enhancing the intimate partner violence clinical skills of nurses...

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..Although this new technology shows promise, there is a need for further research to examine its impact as a tool to promote public health nursing practice.

The purpose of this study was to explore the development of public health nursing in a primary care trust that focused around the evaluation of a newly introduced public health nursing role...

..To determine whether hospital-based, home care, and district nurses identify a core set of organizational attributes in the nursing work environment that they value as important to the support of professional practice...

..The main aims of this study were to obtain information on the extent of staff contact and input with mental health problems and to determine their experience, training and attitudes to such problems...

..Overall, the nurses felt that the home visit program has had a positive impact on the health and well-being of the mothers and infants served...

..To assess the use of the "Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals" standards in practice and academic work settings by public health nurses (PHNs), and to determine differences between practitioners and faculty...

..The qualitative results complemented the quantitative findings, which were significant in relating to the five dimensions of Campinha-Bacote's model of cultural competence...

..This qualitative descriptive study investigates how public health nurses working within the child welfare system view the organization and the organization's effect on their case management practice...

..Applying Carper's (1978) framework, the data presented here show that there has been a shifting emphasis in knowing the patient from aesthetic and personal knowing to knowing about and empirical knowing...

To integrate public health nursing (PHN) competencies into a comprehensive performance review instrument for nurses at multiple practice levels in an urban public health department.

..Recommendations include providing education on population-based concepts, such as community assessment and at-risk populations, and using interventions from the Public Health Intervention Wheel in conjunction with outreach...

..Intervention Model, was originally introduced in 1998 by the Minnesota Department of Health, Section of Public Health Nursing. The model has been widely disseminated and used throughout the United States since that time...

..Involvement from the heads of the PHCC and the manufactures of the EPR system is necessary, in cooperation with the district nurses, to render the nursing documentation suitable for future use in the evaluation and development of care...

..The purpose of this article is to describe the efforts in the state of Georgia to train public health nurse-childcare health consultants (PHN-CCHCs) using the framework of the "Core competencies for public health practice."..

..Primary care trusts, cancer networks and strategic health authorities must work together to ensure minimum standards of access nationally if the recommendations of the NICE guidance on supportive and palliative care are to be achieved...

..Although much remains to be done, it must be acknowledged that the 'pain-advisers', with relatively small resources, managed to make significant improvements...

Attrition in the public health nursing work force combined with a lack of faculty to teach public health prompted development of a "long-distance" learning project...

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..More specifically the aim gives rise to the objective of establishing how they translate their understanding into practice...

..To describe the issues related to delivering an early childhood home visiting program, BabyFirst, from the perspective of public health nurses and lay home visitors (paraprofessionals)...

..Recommendations are offered about screening for depression with this client population...

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..The aim was to investigate whether perceptions of electronic nursing documentation and its performance differed because of primary health care management...

This study examined the extent to which public health nurses (PHNs) see value in credentialing and perceive specific barriers related to a community/public health nursing (C/PHN) credential.

..This study examined the user voice in England's National Health Service (NHS) wound dressing supply chain...

..This study considers the context of public health nursing in New Zealand, firstly by exploring the creation and development of the public health nursing role and ..

..To explore the strategies that public health nurses use to assess the feasibility of creating new services...

..There is a need for organizations to invest in CPD of the workforce, consider cheaper alternatives for meeting CPD needs and for further research to assess the impact of CPD on clinical practice...

..Her client's personal growth over time, rather than the single act of leaving an abusive relationship, now defined a successful client interaction.The authors also discuss implications for practice that arise from these accounts...

..g. traditional instruction). Reasons analyses provide directions for decreasing barriers for developing a learning model of this new medium for nurses' CE...

..To clarify the significance of public health nurses' practice, we introduced the activities of Japanese public health nurses and tried to develop a model based on the purpose of their work...

..This study set out to address these difficulties...

..Although based on Ellershaw's pioneering work, this pathway was developed specifically for use in the community to reflect and address the particular problems encountered in this setting when caring for dying patients...

..to provide networking support to facilitate infusion of environmental health into nursing curricula and public health nursing practice...

..The aim of this paper was to discuss the predictive validity and reliability of the Community Client Need Classification System (CCNCS), the results of using this tool and public health nurses' satisfaction with the system...

..environmental health and to develop tools to enable educators and practitioners to apply this knowledge in public health nursing and other specialty practices...

..Designing a systematic in-service training program to enhance working competency and performance of PHNs is also suggested...

The Scottish Executive and the National Health Service (NHS) have been consistently promoting 'public health nursing' as a new way forward in the community...

..A concerted effort to address the barriers is needed so that PHNs in Manitoba can play a leadership role in creating a health-care system that truly invests in population health...

..MEASURED OUTCOME: Prevalence of HBsAg antigen...

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..These results demonstrate the promise of integrated smoking cessation therapy in a group support context and indicate the need to pursue implementation and evaluation of this type of therapy on a larger scale...

..The individuals returned their questionnaires by postal mail. The collection rates were 52.9% in 1995 and 21.3% in 2004. In both surveys, the mean age of..

..Midwife interviews revealed the "medicalization" of pregnancy caused both by physicians and midwives' own medical concept of pregnancy and by clients' demands for good care...

..It can also provide virtual experiences that nursing students may encounter in the clinical setting which are high risk and low volume, thus enhancing patient safety...

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..72, 5.03) and 2.99-fold (95% CI = 1.10, 8.09) increased risks, respectively, of developing CIN. The authors concluded that lifetime ETS exposure is a major determinant for contracting cervical neoplasms among nonsmoking women in Taiwan...

..The study aimed to examine the knowledge and practice of breast cancer screening amongst Public Health nurses who are patient educators...

..Other included items are: the primary and secondary outcome measures, the statistical analysis and the economic evaluation...

..This paper is a report of a study to assess to what extent national child health promotion policy is reflected in health visitors' practice across the United Kingdom...

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..Schools in Delft, a poor socio-economic area with high unemployment, crime and a range of social problems, are used as the teaching site...

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..This paper reports a study identifying the demographic characteristics, self-reported trauma and torture prevalence, and association of trauma experience and health and social problems among Somali and Oromo women refugees...

..From the point of view of continuing treatment, it is thought necessary to focus on young Japanese patients, not just foreign-born patients...

..quot; The survey also revealed that 19 of the social withdrawal cases, or 35.2%, inflicted acts of violence on family members; however, 8 cases, or 42.1% showed the improvement of violence through home visits...

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..A secondary aim was to identify their sources of support in the postnatal period...

..To examine childhood immunization levels relative to the number of family physicians, pediatricians, and public health nurses in Ontario...

..The aim of the study is to clarify the concept of supervision by means of concept analysis, in order to evaluate the concept's application to the practise of public health nurses...

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..The purpose of the present study was to compare the levels of consciousness of activities among HPVs by years of experience...

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..We describe breastfeeding knowledge, attitudes, and practices among a full range of providers and healthcare system-level barriers to effective and coordinated breastfeeding services...

..Research into the role of screening for problems in the parent-child relationship in early childhood is sparse and little is known about how such problems are currently identified in the community...

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..Reasons for the project's limited success in changing the health science information seeking and utilization practices of public health nurses are discussed, and potential solutions are proposed...

..Professional responsibilities expected from this new cadre of workforce are also discussed in this article...

..Using this delivery strategy to address the oral health needs of high risk women and children, when replicated in other settings, could potentially have far reaching impact in eliminating oral disease and oral health disparities. ..

..The proposed research is consistent with recommendations that communitybased environmental health programs be framed and delivered in a manner that is meaningful to families and high-risk subgroups. ..

..Such a view is consistent with national recommendations that translational EH research be framed and delivered in a manner that is meaningful to families, marginalized populations, and high-risk subgroups. ..

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..Understanding also will be enhanced about the influence of interpersonal and environmental factors on adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors of Latinas. ..

..The health literacy interventions build off of extensive previous research by the investigators and are grounded in a multi-theoretical model. ..

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..The health literacy interventions build off of extensive previous research by the investigators and are grounded in a multi-theoretical model. ..

..Consistent with the goal of Healthy People 2010, Objective 6, this research project will identify factors affecting families attempting to access services for their children and changes that could be made to help them in this process. ..

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..This research will make a major contribution toward promoting pregnancy planning and HIV prevention for women and their babies in Malawi and throughout the African region. ..

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..These evaluationswill be a focal point of discussion in the Faculty Development Seminar, and suitable program modifications will be implemented by the Leadership Team. ..

..These evaluationswill be a focal point of discussion in the Faculty Development Seminar, and suitable program modifications will be implemented by the Leadership Team. ..

..The analyses will match patients with resistant infections (hospital- and community-acquired) to susceptible patients and to uninfected patients. _^ ..

..of each of the two projects to Milwaukee for the workshop in 2006 as exemplars of environmental health in public health nursing and the academy...

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..In the final year, plans for a sustainable Consortium on antimicrobial resistance will be formalized. ..

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