Development of public health nursing competencies: an oral history.

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This paper identifies the external and internal forces that led to the initiation and completion of a set of Public Health Nursing (PHN) competencies by nursing representatives from the Quad Council (QC) organizations:
the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators, the American Public Health Association/Public Health Nursing Section, the Association of State and Territorial Directors of Nursing, and the American Nurses Association Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics. Discussion on the need for competencies began in 1988 with the Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Public Health, which cited a widening gap between the education and practice of public health (PH). PH leaders promptly responded by initiating many interactions to improve academic programs and enhance workforce development, including the development of competencies for PH professionals. PHN responded through the Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations, which completed development of a set of national PHN competencies in 2003. The unfolding of that process is reported from the content-specific oral histories of five PHN leaders who served on the QC and participated in developing the PHN competencies.

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Author/s: King, Marilyn Givens (MG); Erickson, Grace P (GP);

Affiliation: Medical University of South Carolina, College of Nursing, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. kingmg(-atsign-)musc.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Biography; Historical Article; Journal Article

Journal: Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) (Public Health Nurs), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2006 Mar-Apr; vol 23 (issue 2) : pp 196-201

Dates: Created 2006/05/10; Completed 2006/07/11; Revised 2007/11/15;

PMID: 16684195, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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