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Shawn M Kneipp1, Joyce K Edmonds1, Jennifer Cooper1
1Shawn M. Kneipp is with the School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is the immediate past chair of the American Public Health Association's Public Health Nursing Section. Joyce K. Edmonds is with the William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, and is the current chair of the American Public Health Association's Public Health Nursing Section. Jennifer Cooper is with the Hood College Department of Nursing, Frederick, MD. Lisa A. Campbell is with the School of Nursing, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, and is chair of the Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations. Susan Haynes Little is with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health, Raleigh. Aisha K. Mix is with the US Public Health Service, Washington, DC.
Abstract:
Recent national initiatives in nursing and public health have emphasized the need for a robust public health nursing (PHN) workforce. In this article, we analyze the extent to which recent national enumeration surveys base their counts of this workforce on the definitions, scope, and standards for practice and practice competencies of the PHN nursing specialty. By and large, enumeration surveys continue to rely on practice setting to define the PHN workforce, which is an insufficient approach for meeting the goals of major nursing and public health initiatives. We make recommendations for the development of new standards for PHN enumeration to strengthen the broader public health infrastructure and evaluate PHN contributions to population-level outcomes. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(S3):S292-S297. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306782).
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