Creating the Future of Public Health Nursing: A Call to Action

Community/public health nursing faculty's knowledge, skills and attitudes of the Quad Council Competencies for Public Health Nurses

“…These investigators found faculty were more likely than their PHN practice colleagues to be aware of and implement elements of the QCC-PHN. Swider, Levin, & Kulbok, 2015). The authors did not locate published research on the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and application of C/PHN faculty of the QCC-PHN.…”

“…The importance of qualified C/PHN faculty has been recognized in the literature as an important component in developing the capacity for future nurses (Evans‐Agnew, Reyes, Primomo, Meyer, & Matlock‐Hightower, ). This component is further emphasized in Public Health 3.0, which states understanding the components of a community assessment down to zip code data is more important to health outcomes than one's genetic code (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services [USDHHS], ; Evans‐Agnew et al., ; Swider, Levin, & Kulbok, ). The authors did not locate published research on the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and application of C/PHN faculty of the QCC‐PHN .…”

The Invisibility of Public Health Nurses

“…In addition to the suggestions made by the authors of other editorials and articles in this journal (Reifsnider & Garcia, 2015;Schaffer, Keller, & Reckinger, 2015;Swider, Levin, & Kulbok, 2015), I have several suggestions. In education, we should bring the Quad Council competencies to our schools' Curriculum Committees and ensure their integration into course content and establish uniform competencies.…”

The Dialogue Continues: The Future of Public Health Nursing

“…An editorial by Swider, Levin, and Kulbok () was published in Public Health Nursing earlier this year that provided a thoughtful response to an article by Canales and Drevdahl () published in Nursing Outlook , and provocatively titled “Community/public health nursing: Is there a future for the specialty?”. In this article, Canales and Drevdahl describe very bleak prospects for the specialty, and in a valiant attempt at saving what can be saved, they recommend two actions.…”

“…In their editorial reply, Swider et al. () took opposition to Canales and Drevdahl's () recommendation that all graduate nurses be taught to practice at the population level, and suggest that public health nursing “…requires a significant paradigm shift, as well as skill development, from individual‐focused nursing practice” (p. 92), to presumably population focused nursing practice, though they do not specify exactly what public health nursing requires a shift to . They then go on to offer hope to public health nurses by stating, “It is likely that health departments will continue to decrease their role in individual‐level care, but the PHN role will be maintained in models such as the Nurse Family Partnership and in home health care…” (p. 91).…”