"Public Health Nursing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A nursing specialty concerned with promoting and protecting the health of populations, using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences to develop local, regional, state, and national health policy and research. It is population-focused and community-oriented, aimed at health promotion and disease prevention through educational, diagnostic, and preventive programs.
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D011637
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.478.676.755
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Public Health Nursing" by people in Profiles.
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Swan BA, Gibbons W, Kaligotla L. Giving Life to Learning Through Rural Maternal Health Immersion Experiences. Nurse Educ. 2024 May-Jun 01; 49(3):167-170.
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Harmon M, Joyce BL, Johnson RGH, Hicks V, Brown-Schott N, Pilling L. Mixed-method analysis of the quad council competencies for public health nurses. Public Health Nurs. 2022 05; 39(3):624-637.
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Kates J, Gerolamo A, Pogorzelska-Maziarz M. The impact of COVID-19 on the hospice and palliative care workforce. Public Health Nurs. 2021 05; 38(3):459-463.
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Harmon M, Joyce BL, Johnson RGH, Hicks V, Brown-Schott N, Pilling L, Collinge R, Brownrigg V. An exploratory survey of public health nurses' knowledge, skills, attitudes, and application of the Quad Council Competencies. Public Health Nurs. 2020 07; 37(4):581-595.
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Alexander K, Clary-Muronda V, Smith JM, Ward J. The Relationship Between Past Experience, Empathy, and Attitudes Toward Poverty. J Nurs Educ. 2020 Mar 01; 59(3):158-162.
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Szajna A, Shaffer K. Public health champions in the making: An innovative undergraduate nursing pedagogy. Public Health Nurs. 2020 01; 37(1):130-134.
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Campbell LA, Harmon MJ, Joyce BL, Little SH. Quad Council Coalition community/public health nursing competencies: Building consensus through collaboration. Public Health Nurs. 2020 01; 37(1):96-112.
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Joyce BL, Harmon MJ, Johnson RGH, Hicks V, Brown-Schott N, Pilling LB. Using a quality improvement model to enhance community/public health nursing education. Public Health Nurs. 2019 11; 36(6):847-855.
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Joyce BL, Harmon M, Johnson RGH, Hicks V, Brown-Schott N, Pilling L, Brownrigg V. Community/public health nursing faculty's knowledge, skills and attitudes of the Quad Council Competencies for Public Health Nurses. Public Health Nurs. 2018 09; 35(5):427-439.
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Okatch H, Sowicz TJ, Teng H, Ramogola-Masire D, Buttenheim AM. Achieving public and global health competencies: A teaching case study of Botswana's cervical cancer screening program. Public Health Nurs. 2018 05; 35(3):238-245.