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Public Health Nursing Roles and Functions
PUBH 744
First Summer Session 2007, 3 credits
Instructor:
Christina A. Harlan, BSN, MA
425 Carrington Hall
UNC-CH School of Nursing
919-966-9877
Chris_Harlan@unc.edu
Course Overview
This course will focus on development of knowledge and skills for identifying and
implementing roles and functions in public health nursing. Key topics include the
mission of public health; roles and responsibilities of public health nurses in
various community/public health settings; history of public health nursing, and
leadership/ advocacy skills.
Course Objectives
• Relate historical milestones in public health nursing to current practice.
• Identify essential leadership skills for public health nursing practice.
• Describe the role of the public health nurse in the public sector.
• Develop a vision for future Public Health Nursing practice
Required Activities
Further discussion of these activities and how they will be evaluated are covered
in the first online presentation in Module 1.
Discussion Questions
Each student will be asked to consider several questions and post a response to
the discussion board for other students to read. Due to the compressed time of
the summer session, you are only required to post your initial response to the
discussion question. However, you are strongly encouraged to respond to your
classmates with any questions or comments you have on the answers they post.
Each discussion question has its own forum set up in the Discussion Forums
section of Blackboard. Click on the forum title and then add your response by
clicking on the "Add New Thread" button. You can read other posts by clicking on
1
the item you want to read, and you can then respond by clicking the "Reply"
button.
Individual Activities
The individual activities are similar to the discussion questions, but due to the
constraints of the summer course you will not be expected to read one another's
work. However, you will submit these assignments as an attachment to a post in
the discussion forum, and you are encouraged to view one another's work.
REQUIRED READINGS
Module Topic Readings
History of Public Health • Dieckmann, J. History of public
Nursing health and community health
nursing (Chapter 2) in Stanhope,
Janna Dieckmann, PhD, RN M. and Lancaster, J. (2004)
Community and Public Health
Nursing . 6th edition. Mosby. St.
Louis, MO.
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• Biography of Lillian Wald from the
Jewish Women's Archive Exhibit:
Women of Valor
• History of Frontier Nursing
Service from the Frontier Nursing
Service website
Nursing Leadership • Conner, DR. (2001) The Five
Levels of Leadership (Chapter 4).
Connie Mullinix, PhD, MBA, RN In Rowitz, L., Public Health
Leadership: Putting Principles
into Practice. Gaithersburg, MD:
Aspen Publishers, Inc.
2
Ethics Issues in Public • McKnight, J. (1995) John Deere
Health Nursing and the Bereavement Counselor
in The Careless Society. Basic
Bonnie Rogers, DrPH, COHN-S, Books. NY, NY.
LNCC, FAAN
Leadership and Advocacy in • Two articles from the Public
Health Nursing section of the
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Professional Organizations American Public Health
Association website:
Sonda Oppewal, RN, PhD o The Role of Public Health
Nurses
o Testimony before the
Institute of Medicine Study
Committee on the Work
Environment for Nurses
and Patient Safety, By Phil
Greiner, DNSc, RN and
Sonda Oppewal, RN, PhD
Public Health Nursing in the • Milne, T. The Local Health
Local Health Department Department (Chapter 8) in
Scutchfield, F. and Keck, C.
Wayne Sherman, MSPH, RN (2003) Principles of Public Health
Practice. 2nd edition. Thomson
Publishers. Clifton Park, NY.
• Browse the website for the
Orange County Health
Department
Healthy Carolinians of • Browse the Healthy People 2010
Orange County: Process & website
Products • Browse the Healthy Carolinians of
3 Orange County website and read
Beverly Foster, RN, PhD the Executive Summary on pages
1-4 of the Orange County
Community Health Assessment
2003 that you'll find linked there.
PHN Roles at the State • Dandoy, S. and Melton, A. The
Level State Public Health Department
(Chapter 7). In Scutchfield, F. and
Joy Reed, EdD, RN Keck, C. (2003) Principles of
Public Health Practice. 2nd
edition. Thomson Publishers.
Clifton Park, NY.
Lay Health Advisors: A
4 Strategy for Health
Promotion • Eng, E.; Parker, E.; and Harlan,
C. (1997) Lay Health Advisor
Intervention Strategies: A
Continuum From Natural Helping
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Christina A. Harlan, BSN, MA to Paraprofessional Helping. In
Health Education and Behavior
24 (4)
Intensive Home Visiting • Browse the Healthy Families
Programs in North Carolina America website.
• Browse the National Center for
Christina A. Harlan, BSN, MA Children, Families and
Communities (NCCFC) website.
Nursing’s Role in Public • Berkowitz, B. (2002). Public
Health Preparedness and Health Nursing Practice:
Response Aftermath of September 11, 2001.
Online Journal of Issues in
Carla Julian, MPH, BSN, RN Nursing, 7(3), Manuscript. 4
GRADING AND EVALUATION
Grading for this course follows the School of Public Health guidelines using
Pass/Fail. Student participation will be evaluated based on the timeliness and
quality of work posted to the discussion forum and papers submitted to the
instructor.
Grading
Course Requirement
Weight
Class Participation via Discussion Forums.................................... 40%
Papers...................................................................................................... 30%
• News article/letter to editor (5%)
• Professional Nursing Organizations (10%)
• Program Design and Implementation (15%)
Final Paper............................................................................................. 30%
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Course Schedule
Module Topic/Assignment Due Date
Course Introduction and Overview May 15 - 19
Post Introductions to the Discussion Forum 5/16
1
Discussion Assignment 5/17
Individual Assignment 5/19
Module Leadership May 20 - 26
2 Discussion Assignment 5/23
Individual Assignment 5/26
Module Roles and Functions May 27 - June 2
3 Discussion Assignment (Your Local HD) 5/30
Discussion Assignment (The Board of Health) 6/2
Module Program Development June 3 - 9
Discussion Assignment 6/6
4
Individual Assignment 6/9
Final Paper 6/16
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