INTRODUCTION Public health nursing is the foundation of the United States' (US) public health system, particularly in rural and remote areas. Recent increasing interest in public health in the USA has highlighted that there is limited information available about public health nursing in the most isolated areas, particularly in the US. The purposes of this study were to: (1) describe the charact...

The importance of nurse staffing to the delivery of high-quality patient care was a principal finding in the landmark report of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on the Adequacy of Nurse Staffing in Hospitals and Nursing Homes: “Nursing is a critical factor in determining the quality of care in hospitals and the nature of patient outcomes” (p. 92). Nurse staffing is a crucial health p...

The most significant investment a nursing executive can make in an organization and to the delivery of quality patient care is the development of current and future front-line nurse managers. We are on the brink of massive changes in access and the delivery of health care. The front-line manager is in a critical position to make it all work and deliver what the public wants: better access, impr...

Background: The continual rise of health workforce unemployment in the country indicates the need to explore policy and planning of the physician and nurse requirements in Serbia. The study aimed to identify variables that were significantly related to physicians and nurses’ employment in the public healthcare sector of Serbia from 1961 to 2008 and to forecast the physicians and nurse’ requirem...

Public Health nursing is complex because it incorporates an expectation of empowerment and advocacy on behalf of the public health nurse (PHN) in three functions: curative engagement, health promotion, and political advocacy (Cawley and Mannix McNamara 2011). Indeed, the mission of public health nursing calls for the health promotion approach (DOH 1997) and PHNs have a unique opportunity in the...

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 health education. METHODS The study used an inductive, qualitative research design involving semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Participa...