Public Health Nursing
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The lived experience of community nurses treating clients with leg ulcers.

30 Aug 2009 Chronic leg ulceration impacts negatively on the quality of life of the sufferer and has financial implications for the economy. Government health policy aims to tackle long-term conditions and restructure services from acute to community care. ... Read more...

Tomorrow's nurse graduate, today: the change in undergraduate education.

30 Aug 2009 This article argues for a new kind of nurse graduate, equipped for the global challenges to health in the 21st century. The author points to the correlation between the public health role of a nurse in the 19th century and community health patterns ... Read more...

Applied epidemiology for public health and community-based nurses.

30 Jul 2009 As concerns mount surrounding exposure to environmental hazards and other public health threats, skills in surveillance and outbreak investigation are becoming critical competencies for public health and community-based nurses. This article ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Public Health Nursing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The lived experience of community nurses treating clients with leg ulcers. 30 Aug 2009
• Tomorrow's nurse graduate, today: the change in undergraduate education. 30 Aug 2009
• Border health on the Pacific Dawn. 30 Jul 2009
• Nurse led project improves refugee immunisation. 30 Jul 2009
• Applied epidemiology for public health and community-based nurses. 30 Jul 2009
• Assisted suicide: increased support for a change in the law. 30 Jul 2009
• Generalized public health and industrial nurses work together. 1949. 29 Jun 2009
• Health effects of life transitions for women and children: a research model for public and community health nursing. 29 Jun 2009
• Reasons for enrollment, the informed consent process, and trust among low-income women participating in a community-based participatory research study. 29 Jun 2009
• Public health management of perinatal hepatitis B virus. 29 Jun 2009
• Gang youth as a vulnerable population for nursing intervention. 29 Jun 2009
• Self-reported pain and utilization of pain treatment between minorities and nonminorities in the United States. 29 Jun 2009
• The journal as journalism. 29 Jun 2009
• Understanding the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. 29 Jun 2009
• Why do Norwegian nurses leave the public health service to practice CAM? 15 Jun 2009
• [Development of competency measurement concerning the creation of projects/social resources for public health nurses: investigation of reliability and validity] 30 May 2009
• [Installing oneself as a liberal nurse] 30 May 2009
• Carole Romm. Interview by Patrice O'Shaughnessy. 30 May 2009
• Fleeting or pandemic? RNs draw on experience, planning to respond to current influenza outbreak. 29 Apr 2009
• Funding for public health services tightens as need rises. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Public Health Nursing'

Definition: The field of nursing focusing on the health of the community through educational and preventive programs, as well as providing treatment and diagnostic services.

Descriptor UI: D011637

Alternative terms: Public Health Nursing; Nursing, Public Health; Public Health Nurses; Nurse, Public Health; Nurses, Public Health; Public Health Nurse;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.478.676.755;

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif