The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
3274.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Using an historical framework, this session describes the origins, trends and enduring issues in public health nursing over time. Presenters will identify influencing events, organizations, leaders, and strategies which helped shape PHN education and practice in the past, as well as influence the issues of today. Specific attention will be devoted traditional sources of funding support for public health nursing and current challenges in this enduring dilemma.
Learning Objectives: 1. To examine the historical roots of public public health nursing practice and education 2. To discuss enduring dilemmas in financing and delivery of public health nursing and home health care services 3. To explore the implications of past experiences for charting the future for public health nursing education and practice
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Presider(s):Marcia K. Stanhope, DSN
2:30 PMWithdrawn -- Enduring dilemmas in home care:An historical analysis
karen buhler-wilkerson, rn, phd
2:48 PM"Advance Guards of the Health Army": The Bureau of Nursing Service for New York City's Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor, 1900-1940
Cynthia A. Connolly, PhD, RN
3:06 PMPublic health nursing education from 1900 to 1950
Pamela A. Kulbok, DNSc, RN, Doris Glick, PhD, RN, MN
3:24 PMFederal funding of public health nursing education and practice: The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921
Deborah Sampson, RN, CRNP, MSN
3:42 PMPublic collaboration for health in rural Maine, 1910-1950
Martha A. Eastman, APRN, BC
4:00 PMSketching boundaries: Public health nursing in the home care programs of Philadelphia, New York City, and rural North Carolina
Janna L. Dieckmann, PhD, RN
Organized by:Public Health Nursing
CE Credits:Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA