Public Health Nursing (POSTED BY VICTOR MOTURI)

This was adopted from the NC Public Health website:

Public Health Nursing:

Is the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social and public health sciences (APHA, Public Health Nursing Section, 1996.)

The Principles that guide the Registered Nurses in NC define their main roles.
The following principles were adopted from the NC public health website:

(1) The client or “unit of care” is the population.
(2) The primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of people or the population as a whole.
(3) The processes used by public health nurses including working with the client(s) as an equal partner.
(4) Primary prevention is the priority in selecting appropriate activities.
(5) The focus is on selecting strategies that create healthy environmental, social and economic conditions in which populations may thrive.
(6) There is an obligation to actively identify and reach out to all who might benefit from a specific activity or service.
(7) Optimal use of available resources to assure the best overall improvement in the health of the populations is a key element of the practice.
(8) Collaboration with a variety of other professions, populations, organizations and other stakeholder groups is the most effective way to promote and protect the health of the people.