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Unlocking the Potential of School Nursing: Keeping Children Healthy, in School, and Ready to Learn [PDF]

, 2010
Outlines disparities in school nurse staffing; promising policies and funding strategies; the role of school nurses in the educational, healthcare, and public health systems; and the challenges they face.

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Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria and anaemia control in Tanzanian infants; the development and implementation of a public health strategy.

, 2009
Minimizing the time between efficacy studies and public health action is important to maximize health gains. We report the rationale, development and implementation of a district-based strategy for the implementation of intermittent preventive treatment ...
Alonso, Pedro, Hamis, Yuna, Kitambi, Mary, Manzi, Fatuma, Mshinda, Hassan, Mushi, Adiel K, Mwita, Alex, Rusibamayila, Neema, Schellenberg, David, Schellenberg, Joanna, Shirima, Kizito, Simba, Azma, Tanner, Marcel   +12 more
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Factors associated with psychological distress of Public Health Nurse in Kagawa prefecture, Japan: A pilot study

, 2012
We evaluated the psychological distress using a scale of the K6, the 6-item scale of psychological distress on public health nurse in Kagawa prefecture, Japan. We send the questionnaire to all public health nurses (n = 419) in Kagawa prefecture.
N. Sakano, Takeshi Suzue, N. Miyatake, Y. Miyamae, T. Nagatomi, T. Yoda, Akira Yoshioka, Wataru Shiraki, T. Hirao   +8 more
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Effectiveness of public health nurse home visits to primarous mothers and their infants.

American Journal of Public Health, 1983
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of public health nurse postpartum home visits by comparing the health outcomes of 67 randomly selected mother-infant pairs who had received such services with 43 randomly selected mother-infant pairs
V. Barkauskas
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A Disaster Response and Management Competency Mapping of Community Nurses in China

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2013
Background: It is widely accepted in many parts of the world that community nurses are of vital importance in various phases of disaster response and management.
Yu Luo, Ling Liu, Wen-Quan Huang, Ya-Na Yang, Jie Deng, Chun-Hong Yin, Hui Ren, Xian-Yuan Wang   +7 more
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A snapshot of Australian nurse practitioners' extended practice activities [PDF]

, 2010
Introduction The Australian Nurse Practitioner Project (AUSPRAC) was initiated to examine the introduction of nurse practitioners into the Australian health service environment.
Della, Phillip, Doubrovsky, Anna, Gardner, Anne, Gardner, Glenn, Middleton, Sandy   +4 more
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School Nurses' perspectives on the role of the school nurse in health education and health promotion in England: a qualitative study. [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: The role of the school nurse is complex with many possible elements identified by previous research. The aim of this study is to understand perceptions of the role of the school nurse in order to support school nurses in the delivery of ...
Eley, CV, Hawking, MKD, Hoekstra, BA, McNulty, CAM, Young, VL   +4 more
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Validation of the PHNs precepting experiential learning causal model for preceptors of novice public health nurses in Japan

Nursing Open, 2020
Aims The purpose of this study was to analyse the relationship among public health nurse (PHN) precepting experiential learning (PHN‐PEL) and the outcomes.
Taeko Shimazu
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Public Health Nurses’ Professional Practices to Prevent, Recognize, and Respond to Suspected Child Maltreatment in Home Visiting: An Interpretive Descriptive Study

Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 2021
The purpose of this analysis was to understand public health nurses’ experiences in preventing and addressing suspected child maltreatment within the context of home visiting.
Susan M. Jack, Andrea Gonzalez, Lenora Marcellus, Lil Tonmyr, Colleen Varcoe, Natasha Van Borek, Debbie Sheehan, Karen MacKinnon, Karen Campbell, Nicole Catherine, Christine Kurtz Landy, Harriet L. MacMillan, Charlotte Waddell   +12 more
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Nurse-Family Partnership and Geography: An Intersectional Perspective

Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 2020
Nurse-Family Partnership is a targeted public health intervention program designed to improve child and maternal health through nurse home visiting. In the context of a process evaluation, we posed the question: “In what ways do Canadian public health ...
Karen A. Campbell, Karen MacKinnon, Maureen Dobbins, Susan M. Jack,   +4 more
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