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A Public Health Nursing Research Agenda
Author(s) -
Issel L. Michele,
Bekemeier Betty,
Kneipp Shawn
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2011.00989.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , public health , population , nursing , public health nursing , participatory action research , psychological intervention , population health , health services research , health care , medicine , sociology , political science , environmental health , social science , anthropology , law
Public health nurses ( PHNs ) use many interventions to prevent illness and promote the health of populations. Unfortunately, generating evidence regarding PHN practice is not explicitly identified as a research priority area of the major national funding agencies. Nor has PHN, as a profession, had a strong enough research agenda to drive practice improvement on a population‐level and to drive funding to support such areas of research. To further advance the science needed to guide PHN practice, a national conference to set the research agenda was held in October 2010 with grant support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The conference was part of a multimethod, participatory, multistage approach taken to generate the final research priority themes and corresponding priority research questions. The process yielded four high priority PHN research themes: PHN intervention models, Quality of population‐focused PHN practice, Metrics of/for PHN, and comparative effectiveness and PHN outcomes. As the agenda is adopted by funding agencies, researchers, and practice‐based partners, a more focused program of research will produce evidence that can guide population‐focused PHN practice.