4121.0 Public Health Nursing Leadership

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Public health nursing leadership is an essential partner in health improvement, seeking to identify the most effective means of assuring health for all. Looking through the lens of social justice, this session will explore the transformation of the profession and its quest to eliminate health disparities, promote quality improvement through electronic data reporting and management and assure that developing professional nurses are competent in policy development.
Session Objectives: 1.Examine the transformation of public health nursing through a social justice lens. 2.Explore selected public health nursing efforts to eliminate health disparities, promote quality improvement and enhance policy competence through curricular innovation.
Moderator:
Jeanne A. Matthews, PhD, RN

10:30am
What's in a Name? Evolution of Public Health Nursing
Sandra B. Lewenson, EdD, RN, FAAN
     
10:50am
Changes in public health programs over time…and how they relate to disparities in mortality
Betty Bekemeier, PhD, MPH, RN
     
11:10am
Implementing client-level data reporting at HIV medical and supportive service agencies
Dana D. Hines, MSN, RN
     
11:30am
Enhancing the policy competence of Public Health Nurses via education
Susan M. Swider, PhD, APHN-BC
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Nursing

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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