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Abstract #147521

Anne Watson Bongiorno, PhD, APRN, Department of Nursing, SUNY Plattsburgh, 101 Broad St., 221E Hawkins Hall, Plattsburgh, NY 19201, 5185644246, anne.bongiorno@plattsburgh.edu, Margaret Mullarkey, MS, RN, Division of Nursing, Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave, PO Box 5002, Rockville Centre, NY 11571-5002, Donna (Danuta) Clemmens, PhD RN, College of Nursing, New York University, 246 Greene Street, New York, NY 10003, Elizabeth A. Riegle, RN, MS, School of Nursing, University of Buffalo, 3435 Main Street KT908, Buffalo, NY 14214-3079, Maria A. Fletcher, RN, PhD, Department of Nursing, St. Joseph's College, 265 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11205, and Noreen Nelson, MS, RN, New York Institute of Technology, 1855 Broadway, New York, NY 10023.

Background: The New York Public Health Nursing Summit is a workgroup of educators and public health leaders formed through the auspices of The New York New Jersey Public Health Training Center. The goal of the workgroup is to create a strong partnership between public health leadership and academia to support provision of a skilled public health nursing workforce. The summit workgroup identified a critical need for public health nurse generalists (PHN's) who are educated in competency-based, population based practice. It was discovered that although the Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations (Quad Council) designed a set of core competencies specific to PHN generalists, little is known about how the competencies are used in public health nursing curriculum of baccalaureate granting nursing programs (Quad Council, 2003; New York Public Health Nursing Summit, June 2005). Currently there is no consistent framework used to deliver public health nursing education (American Colleges of Nursing, 2006; Institute of Medicine Report, 2003).

Study Purpose: The workgroup designed a study whose purpose was to identify the practices of baccalaureate granting nursing programs in integrating the Quad Council recommendations regarding Public Health Nursing competencies.

Study Design: The descriptive study utilized a survey examining the educative practices and curriculum of baccalaureate-granting nursing programs in delivering population focused concepts and skills.

Results: Preliminary data indicate that there is no consistent framework being used in New York to deliver PHN education in baccalaureate-granting nursing programs. Significant numbers of nurse educators delivering PHN education indicate no awareness of Quad Council competencies. Results will be presented with implications for ensuring standardization of Public health nursing content throughout baccalaureate-granting nursing programs.

Learning Objectives:

• Compare the results of a statewide survey of baccalaureate public health nursing (PHN) curriculum and practices with Quad Council PHN competencies.
• Discuss the delivery of population focused concepts and skills in PHN education.
• Evaluate awareness of the significance of Quad Council PHN competence to best practices in PHN curriculum design.
• Discuss implications of the PHN survey results to frameworks for PHN education at the baccalaureate level.

Keywords: Nursing Education, Competency

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
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