Public health champions in the making: An innovative undergraduate nursing pedagogy

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-134
Author(s):  
Amy Szajna ◽  
Kathryn Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Nursing Pedagogy

scholarly journals Social pediatrics in a baccalaureate nursing curriculum

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Ranjit Dhari ◽  
Maura MacPhee ◽  
Matthew Pixton
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Public Health Nursing ◽  
Nursing Curriculum ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Social Pediatrics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Nursing

This paper describes the use of social pediatrics in one baccalaureate nursing curriculum. Social pediatrics is a conceptual model that considers health as physical health and the social determinants of health. Social pediatrics focuses on community-based primary healthcare services for at-risk children and their families. The social pediatrics model is used by community early childhood education StrongStart sites in one Canadian province; these sites are collaborations between early childhood educators and public health nursing teams for children from infancy through five years of age. Acute care clinical placements are becoming too complex and limited in number to accommodate large undergraduate nursing cohorts. Our undergraduate nursing program recently shifted acute care pediatric placements to StrongStart sites, combining community pediatric and public health nursing learning objectives and learning activities that foreground social pediatrics. The acute care component of pediatric nursing includes classroom theory, clinical laboratory and virtual simulations. This paper describes social pediatrics integration within our undergraduate curriculum between 2018-2019; and a qualitative evaluation of our social pediatrics approach in 2019-2020. We used content analysis to identify common themes from interviews with key actors, including students’ clinical instructors, StrongStart sites’ early childhood educators and managers, and public health nurse managers affiliated with StrongStart sites. Common themes were related to social pediatrics learning opportunities and drawbacks; social pediatrics knowledge, skills and attitudes; and recommendations for curriculum enhancement.

scholarly journals Simulating Complex Community Disaster Preparedness: Collaboration for Point of Distribution

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Rafferty-Semon ◽  
Jeremy Jarzembak ◽  
Jennifer Shanholtzer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Public Health Department ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Preparedness Planning ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing

Disasters are increasing at local, national, and global levels, as is the need for all nurses and communities to be prepared. Since 2003, decreased funds for disaster preparedness has meant less opportunity for public health departments and emergency management agencies to test disaster response plans. Today’s graduating nurses need strong skills in disaster nursing to manage a variety of disasters in a local to global context. One aim of this article is to briefly describe preparedness planning using a Point of Distribution/Dispensation (POD) and teaching competencies for disaster nursing. We discuss in detail an exemplar about a simulation developed with collaboration among university faculty, the county public health department, and the local emergency management agency (EMA). The article considers insufficient funds for drills and exercises; strategies to increase disaster knowledge and competency of undergraduate nursing students; and realistic, hands-on active learning approaches to disaster response at all levels, including implications for practice.

scholarly journals Incorporating lead education content into undergraduate nursing curriculum: Impact on knowledge and confidence

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Tsu-Yin Wu ◽  
Lydia McBurrows ◽  
Jenni Hoffman ◽  
Sarah Lally ◽  
Vedhika Raghunathan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Prevention Education ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Student Cohorts ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Impact

Background and objective: Lead poisoning is a major public health crisis in Michigan. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of an education intervention on knowledge and confidence levels among nursing students enrolled in the pre-licensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN2BSN) program.Methods: The study used a quantitative pre- and post-test design to assess the impact of lead health learning activities on knowledge and confidence among undergraduate nursing students in the Midwestern United States. The final study sample included 115 nursing students from two student cohorts. The study instrument used 26-item Nursing Students Lead Knowledge and Confidence Scale; independent sample t-tests, paired sample t-test and Cohen’s d for the effect size were used in data analyses.Results: The education improved total knowledge and confidence on both groups whereas RN2BSN students had larger effect sizes on the differences of pre- to post-test scores than pre-licensure students in general lead knowledge, lead exposure knowledge, total lead knowledge, and confidence.Conclusions: The results contribute to limited literature examining a critical public health concern regarding lead health exposure and prevention education of nursing students. Incorporating such content area into nursing curriculums is essential in ensuring that such public health disparities are mitigated.

scholarly journals Contributions of Public Health to nursing practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Káren Mendes Jorge de Souza ◽  
Clarissa Terenzi Seixas ◽  
Helena Maria Scherlowski Leal David ◽  
Aline Queiroz da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health System ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
System Method ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

ABSTRACT Objective: Analyze the perceptions of undergraduate nursing students about the contributions of public health to nursing practice in the Unified Health System. Method: Qualitative Descriptive Study. Data collection was carried out through semi-directed interviews with 15 students. The language material was analyzed according to content and thematic analysis. Results: Thematic categories were established, namely: "Perceptions about Public Health" and "Contribution of Public Health to nursing practice in the Unified Health System". Final considerations: Perceptions about Public Health are diversified, but converge to the recognition of this field as the basis for training nurses qualified to work in the SUS with technical competence, autonomy and focusing on the integrality in health care.

scholarly journals Comprehensiveness in the perspective of public health: pathways for the training of the nurse

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 1119-1123
Author(s):  
Paula Hino ◽  
Ana Lúcia de Moraes Horta ◽  
Mônica Antar Gamba ◽  
Monica Taminato ◽  
Hugo Fernandes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Comprehensive Health ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Complaint Behavior ◽  
Creative Capacity

ABSTRACT Objective: to present an academic practice experienced by professors in a curricular unit of the public health field entitled “Comprehensive health care”, offered in the undergraduate nursing course of a public university. Methods: experience report of dialogic activities between professors and undergraduates. Results: it was possible to discuss nursing care from the perspective of comprehensiveness, which allowed the understanding of the need to broaden the scope regarding the practices conducted in primary care and enabled the attribution of new meanings to the actions experienced by undergraduate students in their curricular internships; thus, contributing to the training of a professional with critical and creative capacity. Final Considerations: the students were able to understand that quality care should go beyond complaint-behavior, providing care based on a networked health service structure aligned with SUS policies and programs.

Approaching Sexually Transmitted Infections in a Nursing Undergraduate Curriculum

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéfany Petry ◽  
Maria Itayra Padilha
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infections ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Nursing Course

ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the approach to sexually transmitted infections in the undergraduate nursing course at a federal university in southern Brazil. Method: Socio-historical research with a qualitative approach, and use of oral and documentary sources. Thirteen professors participated. Data collection took place between December 2018 and April 2019. Data analysis was thematic. Results: Three categories of analysis emerged: the teaching of sexually transmitted infections based on Brazilian public policies; sexually transmitted infections and their teaching strategy in an undergraduate nursing course; and the trajectory of approach to sexually transmitted infections in an undergraduate nursing course. The undergraduate course is based on public health and education policies, and the subject “Sexually Transmitted Infections” was created in the course at the end of the 1970s. The content is not mandatory, being associated with the area of public health and evidenced in the fields of practice and educational activities. Conclusion: The teaching of sexually transmitted infections has been in line with public health and education policies. It gains a greater teaching focus with the emergence of AIDS.

Public Health and Newborn Hearing Screening

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Terrey Oliver Penn ◽  
Susan E. Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Hearing Screening ◽  
Newborn Hearing Screening ◽  
Newborn Hearing

Falls Among Older Adults: A Public Health Concern

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
J. Handelsman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern
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