Enumeration of Public Health Nurses in the United States: Limits of Current Standards

Recent national initiatives in nursing and public health have emphasized the need for a robust public health nursing (PHN) workforce. In this article, we analyze the extent to which recent national enumeration surveys base their counts of this workforce on the definitions, scope, and standards for p...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 112; no. S3; pp. S292 - S297
Main Authors Kneipp, Shawn M, Edmonds, Joyce K, Cooper, Jennifer, Campbell, Lisa A, Little, Susan Haynes, Mix, Aisha K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Public Health Association 01.06.2022
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Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Curricula
Enumeration
Health promotion
Humans
Nurses
Nurses, Public Health
Nursing
Nursing education
Pandemics
Population
Public health
Public Health Nursing
Public works
Roles
Surveys
Trends
United States
Workforce
United States
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Summary:Recent national initiatives in nursing and public health have emphasized the need for a robust public health nursing (PHN) workforce. In this article, we analyze the extent to which recent national enumeration surveys base their counts of this workforce on the definitions, scope, and standards for practice and practice competencies of the PHN nursing specialty. By and large, enumeration surveys continue to rely on practice setting to define the PHN workforce, which is an insufficient approach for meeting the goals of major nursing and public health initiatives. We make recommendations for the development of new standards for PHN enumeration to strengthen the broader public health infrastructure and evaluate PHN contributions to population-level outcomes. ( . 2022;112(S3):S292-S297. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306782).
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ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2022.306782