Enhancing the Capacity of Public Health Nursing through Partnerships: ASTDN, CDC and Partners’ Cooperative Agreement

Linda Olson Keller
Project Director
Senior Research Scientist in Public Health Nursing

The overall objectives for this project are to:

• Assure effective public health nursing leadership through the position of the state nursing director
• Assure competent public health nurse leaders
• Articulate public health nurses’ role in implementation and support of public health and CDC-funded programs
• Assure an adequate number of public health nurses
• Develop an evidence-base for public health nursing practice.

The first activity of the project is to develop a model position description for state public health nursing directors. Compiling and crosswalking existing state nursing director and large local health department nursing director position descriptions is our initial step.

ASTDN State Representatives - please email your position descriptions to Linda Olson Keller at olson173@umn.edu as soon as possible. Please indicate if you are a state public health nursing director. If you are not a state public health nursing director, please designate your position, e.g., nursing consultant, etc. and send your position description.

Also, if you have access to (or could collect) position descriptions of directors of large local health departments (>50 staff), please send them as well.

ASTDN Associate and Alumni Members: If you have or have had a job description that would contribute to this objective, please email it to Linda Olson Keller at olson173@umn.edu.

Below is Linda Olson Keller's contact information should you wish to contact her by mail or phone.

Linda Olson Keller
Project Director
Senior Research Scientist in Public Health Nursing
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota
5-160 Weaver-Densford Hall
308 Harvard Street, S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0342

PH: 612-626-5144
E-Mail:olson173@umn.edu

August '06 project update maybe found here - August '06 Update