Public Health Nurse

Public Health Nurse
One of Lillian Wald's nurses take a short cut accross tenement roofs to visit a patient, circa 1908

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Quad Council

The Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations is an alliance of the four national nursing organizations:

  • Association of Community Health Nurse Educators (ACHNE)
  • American Nurses Association's Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics (ANA)
  • American Public Health Association - Public Health Nursing Section (APHA)
  • Association of State and Territorial Directors of Nursing (ASTDN).

The purpose of the Quad Council is to address public health nursing issues.

The Quad Council has drafted a set of national public health nursing competencies utilizing the Council on Linkages between Academia and Public Health Practice(COL) Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals. They applied these competencies to two levels of public health nursing practice: staff nurse/generalist and manager/specialist/consultant role. The Quad Council's Public Health Nurse Competencies is designed to be used with and compliment the "Definition of Public Health Nursing" adopted by the APHA.

In the midst of the nursing shortage the shortage of public health nurses in particular needs to be addressed. According to research by the Quad Council some of the specific reasons for the shortage of public health nurses are:

  • Overall shortage of registered nurses;
  • An aging population;
  • Poorly funded Public health System on a national, state and local level that result in inadequate salaries;
  • Reduction and/or elimination of public health nursing positions;
  • Shortage of nurse faculty adequately prepared to teach public health nursing;
  • Invisibility of public health nursing to media and marketing campaigns.

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