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Public Health Nursing: Scope, Standards, Competencies, and Community Practice

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Summary

Public/community health nurses work to improve the health of communities and populations through health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction, education, and responses to outbreaks and other health threats. This lesson explains how scope of practice and professional standards guide that work.

Scope of practice describes the professional activities associated with a particular nursing role. It helps nurses understand what they are qualified and competent to do, and when they should seek consultation, training, or referral. Nurses must practice within the limits of their education, expertise, competence, role, and applicable requirements.

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Scope of practice
The professional activities associated with a role, bounded by a nurse’s qualifications and competence.
Standards of practice
Professional principles and guidelines describing expected performance and supporting safe, ethical decisions.
Competency in public/community health nursing
A foundation of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enables a nurse to meet client and community needs.
Tier 1 in the Quad Council Coalition framework
Nurse generalists who are not in management positions.
Health equity
Fair opportunities for everyone to attain their best possible health.

Quiz questions

  1. Which elements make up a competency in public/community health nursing?Answer: Knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
  2. In the Quad Council Coalition framework, which tier describes public/community health nurses who are managers or supervisors?Answer: Tier 2.
  3. Which competency domain involves using evidence and public health knowledge to identify hazards and reduce risks?Answer: Public health sciences.
  4. A public health nurse must organize services within available budgets and monitor program performance. Which competency domain is most directly relevant?Answer: Financial planning, evaluation, and management.
  5. What does culturally congruent practice require of public health nursing care?Answer: Respectful, inclusive, equitable care responsive to cultural context.

Based on Population Health for Nurses by Jessica Ochs, Sherry L. Roper, Susan M. Schwartz (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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