Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Challenges in the Public Health Nursing Practicum: A Qualitative Study

Background: Community health nurses have an important role to play in promoting public health. This study attempted to explore the stakeholders’ perceptions of challenges in the public health nursing practicum in Iran. Methods: This qualitative study was carried out in some schools of nursing and health centers in Iran from October 2015 to September 2017. Twenty-three participants, including faculty members of public health nursing, nursing students, home nurses, experts in health centers, and nursing education policymakers were selected by purposeful sampling. Data were collected using individual interviews and were analyzed by Lundman and Graneheim’s method of content analysis. Results: Three themes resulted from the data analysis, including organizational challenges (with sub-categories of “inappropriate implementation of the curriculum due to lack of authority”, “the treatment-centeredness of health care system”, and “limited fields for nursing practicum”), educational challenges (with sub-categories of “shortcomings of educational curricula” and “the duration and time of practicums”), and workforce challenges (with sub-categories of “the financial burden of public health nursing practicum”, “lack of job position for public health nurses”, and “factors related to the role of instructors”). Conclusion: Senior managers, community health center administrators, and educational planners can use the challenges and barriers raised in this study to make more appropriate planning for the training of nursing students in public health nursing practicum.

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Relationship between Nurse Competence and the Performance Achievement of Public Health Nursing Program at Community Health Center

Asian Community Health Nursing Research ◽

10.29253/achnr.2020.25338 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 53

Author(s):

Andy Nuriyanto ◽

Laili Rahayuwati ◽

Mamat Lukman

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Community Health ◽

Community Health Centers ◽

Nursing Program ◽

Health Centers ◽

Public Health Nursing ◽

P Value ◽

The Public ◽

Professional Nurses ◽

Health Nursing

Background - Public Health Nursing program is an integration of the implementation public health and individual health program conducted at the community health centers to improve the independence and the health status of the community level. Public Health Nursing performance is a value of the public health nursing program implementation based on indicators as a benchmark for achieving of Minimum Achievement Standard goals. In order to achieve their performance, nurses have competencies and authorities based on their position in accordance with the applicable regulations and are carried out in according to their main duties and functions. Aims - This study aims to determine the relationship between nurse competence and the achievement of Public Health Nursing program at the community health centers. Methodology - This study used cross-sectional approach form secondary data with quantitative methods with the samples of 57 nurses (44 vocational and 13 professional nurses) at 5 Community Health Centers in Berau District during 2019. Findings - The findings indicated that there were significant relationships beetwen competence of vocational nurses (p-value 0.026), professional nurses (p-value 0.000), and simultaneously both (p-value 0.004) and the achievement of Public Health Nursing program at the Community Health Centers. Conclusion - The evaluation of the nurse's competence is the basis for realizing the achievements of the Public Health Nursing program at the Community Health Centers in base on their functional position level. A more thorough analysis is required to determine the effect of implementing these competencies to increase the Public health nursing performance at the Community Health Centers.

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Evaluation of the Public Health Nursing Affiliation Experience by Forty-five Basic Professional Nursing Students

Nursing Research ◽

10.1097/00006199-195410000-00014 ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 91

Author(s):

Mary Louise Paynich

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Nursing Students ◽

Public Health Nursing ◽

The Public ◽

Professional Nursing ◽

Health Nursing

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Effectiveness of Community Health Worker/Nursing Student Teams as a Strategy for Public Health Nursing Education

Public Health Nursing ◽

10.1111/j.1525-1446.2010.00854.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 277-284 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Gail Zandee ◽

Debra Bossenbroek ◽

Meghan Friesen ◽

Kari Blech ◽

Ruth Engbers

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Nursing Education ◽

Community Health ◽

Health Worker ◽

Community Health Worker ◽

Nursing Student ◽

Public Health Nursing ◽

Student Teams ◽

Health Nursing

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Challenges and demands in the population-based work of public health nurses

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1177/1403494817743897 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 46 (20_suppl) ◽

pp. 53-58 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Berit Misund Dahl

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Nursing Education ◽

Population Based ◽

Public Health Nursing ◽

Public Health Nurses ◽

Individual Level ◽

The Public ◽

The Government ◽

Health Nursing ◽

The Individual

Aims: Government programs and the Norwegian Directorate of Health give public health nurses in Norway an explicit role in population-based health promotion and disease-prevention work. The aim of this paper is to explore Norwegian public health nurses’ experiences with population-based work. Methods: A phenomenological hermeneutic approach was adopted, involving face-to-face interviews with a purposeful sample of 23 public health nurses from urban and rural districts in two counties in Norway. Results: Three themes were identified: the predominance of work at the individual level, a lack of resources, and adherence to administrative directives. The interviews revealed that the public health nurses were mostly occupied with individual problem-solving activities. Population-based work was hardly prioritized, mostly because of a lack of resources and a lack of recognition of the population-based role of public health nurses. Conclusions:The study indicates contradictions between the public health nursing practice related to population-based work and the direction outlined by the government and the public health nursing curriculum, which may mean that the public health nursing role is not sufficiently clarified. The implementation of practice models and administrative directives and resources, as well as an explicit emphasis on population health in public health nursing education, can contribute to increased population-based interventions. Greater knowledge of and emphasis on population-based work in public health nursing are needed.

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