Introduction to public health nursing practice
Evidence-based public health nursing practice
Competency 1 : applies the public health nursing process to communities, systems, individuals, and families
Competency 2 : utilizes basic epidemiological principles (the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population) in public health nursing practice
Competency 3 : utilizes collaboration to achieve public health goals
Competency 4 : works within the responsibility and authority of the governmental public health system
Competency 5 : practices public health nursing within the auspices of the nurse practice act
Competency 6 : effectively communicates with communities, systems, individuals, families, and colleagues
Competency 7 : establishes and maintains caring relationships with communities, systems, individuals, and families
Competency 8 : shows evidence of commitment to social justice, the greater good, and the public health principles
Competency 9 : demonstrates nonjudgmental and unconditional acceptance of people different from self
Competency 10 : incorporates mental, physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental aspects of health into assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation
Competency 11 : demonstrates leadership in public health nursing with communities, systems, individuals, and families
Putting it all together : what it means to be a public health nurse.