Healthcare Policy and Politics: The Risk and Rewards for Public Health Nurses Donna M. Nickitas Deborah Gardner A comparison of the cost of treating tuberculosis patients in their homes and…
Considerations of Culture in the Health of the Public Astrid Hellier Wilson Mary de Chesnay These opportunities that I have so slightly touched upon bear the closest relationship to the…
Informatics in Public Health Nursing Marisa L. Wilson Martha Kelly Sandra B. Lewenson Marie Truglio-Londrigan How impossible to portray with any justice to the subject the superb panorama of the…
Evidence-Based Practice From a Public Health Perspective Joanne K. Singleton Renee McLeod-Sordjan No system can endure that does not march (Nightingale, 1893/2004, p. 216). LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the completion of…
Fundamentals of Epidemiology and Social Epidemiology Susan Moscou Despite my experience in a large metropolitan hospital, and the subsequent knowledge gained through a year’s residence in a reformatory and asylum…
Public Health Nursing in the United States: A History Sandra B. Lewenson The history of public health nursing is continuous. What we are, we have become through those that have…
Assessment: Using the Public Health Nursing Assessment Tool Marie Truglio-Londrigan Sandra B. Lewenson The public health movement did not create the public health nurse, it found her at work in…
What Is Public Health and Public Health Nursing? Marie Truglio-Londrigan Sandra B. Lewenson Recognizing limits to what the health service professions can now do, in relation to common health problems…
Nurse Staffing in Healthcare Decision-Making To make informed decisions about staffing on specific nursing units, it is critical to explore all the factors associated with staffing levels. Nurses or managers…
Workload Variances in Staffing Situations Patient acuity is defined as the categorization of patients according to an assessment of their nursing care requirements (Harper & McCully, 2007). Patient acuity or…
