Recognition of Family-Group Health Problems by Public Health Nurses

Public health nurses and family planning.

Unintended pregnancy is a health problem that is particularly important in the practice of public health nurses (PHNs). Data from 844 PHNs showed that they were likely to practice in settings that incorporate family planning services and were knowledgeable about specific family planning methods. They favored family planning services and an expanded supportive government role in both family plan...

The Role of Public Health Agencies in Addressing Child and Family Poverty: Public Health Nurses’ Perspectives

Poverty rates among child-bearing families in industrialised countries remain unacceptably high and have significant implications for population health. Both today and in the past, public health nurses have observed the impact of poverty on family health and well-being every day in their practice; yet, their perspectives on their role in addressing child and family poverty are currently absent ...

Nurses for Public Health Work

Since 1920 an international course of training in Public Health Nursing, organised by the Red Cross Societies, has been held at Bedford College for Women in order to meet the increasing demand in all countries for nurses qualified for service in the Public Health field. This year the students have more than maintained the high standard set by former groups, and all sixteen students received the...

Public Health Problems: Tge

[Child hearing health: practice of the Family Health Strategy nurses].

OBJECTIVE Evaluating the practice of nurses of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in child hearing health care. METHOD A normative assessment of structure and process, with 37 nurses in the Family Health Units, in the city of Recife, Pernambuco. The data collection instrument originated from the logical model of child hearing health care provided by nurses of the Family Health Strategy, and the...