While you typically only need an A.D.N. to start working as a registered nurse, employers may prefer candidates with a B.S.N. for entry-level public health nursing roles.

As an Army Public Health Nurse, she said, her roles include mitigating disease and injury through management of individuals diagnosed with any number of communicable diseases.

Public health nurses need a specific skill set that focuses more on population-level health than individual patient care. Nurses who hold the Advanced Public Health Nursing Certification—the ...

“Health visitors and school nurses play a vital role in early identification and intervention” RCPCH report. The report called for more action to tackle child poverty and stated that robust monitoring ...

Public health experiences equip future doctors with essential skills to address broader societal health care issues, such as health care disparities, infectious disease outbreaks, health effects ...

Community health workers play a growing role in Michigan’s health care system, connecting patients with vital resources.

The NMC said the review would look at whether its registration conditions for health visitors, school and health protection nurses and sexual health advisers were “appropriate for modern public health ...

“The role of the local public health nurse is the direct care of the active TB cases,” Keegan said. “And in a city this size, one public health nurse is not enough. ...

1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – PHEOs provide medical expertise and guidance to garrison leadership, according to Lt. Col. Renee Howell, the Army Public Health Nursing Regional Consultant ...

Nurses are the economic engine of the health care system. Wearing many hats, all at once, they deeply impact the health care spending, efficiency, and ultimately, population health outcomes.

First, I wanted to learn how to build public health programs and initiatives. Second, I wanted to understand the dynamics among local health care clinics, governments and nongovernmental ...