ASTDN/ANA
Public Health Nursing:
A Partner for Healthy Population

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Linking the core functions -- assessment, policy development, and assurance -- and the essential services of the discipline, this is a valuable resource for public health nurses as well as leaders in public health and community health educators. When these links are viewed in the context of the art and science of nursing practice, a useful model of public health nursing emerges.

The book defines the ten essential public health services and, for each service, lists the specific activities of public health nurses. From this base, the book covers the competencies required by public health nurses as they shift the emphasis of their practice more strongly to issues of the health of populations. As well, the book provides examples of how public health nurses have acted resourcefully and in partnership with social workers, health educators, environmentalists, and epidemiologists, among others, to provide the services that are essential to those in need.

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Public Health Nursing: A Partner for Healthy Populations serves as a guide and tool for what the expanding role of public health nursing as it relates to population health. It highlights the connection between nursing and the practice framework provided by the three core public health functions (assessment, policy development, and assurance) and the ten essential public health services. As such, it may be used for orientation, recruitment, and curriculum development, or to support the contemporary role of public nursing in the rapidly evolving U.S. healthcare system.

Written in 1999 by the ASTDN Committee on Essential Public Health Services and published by the American Nurses Association in the spring of 2000, the book defines those ten essential public health services and lists the specific activities of public health nurses related to each service. In addition, the authors share inspiring examples of how public health nurses from throughout the U.S. have acted resourcefully in partnership with social workers, health educators, environmentalists, epidemiologists, and others.