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Questions and Answers: Some Questions Discussed at One of the Round Tables Held at Chicago Institute with Public Health Nurses
Author(s) -
Crandall Ella Phillips
Publication year - 2011
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.1525-1446.2011.01002.x
Subject(s) - public health nursing , public health , nursing , community health , nurse education , context (archaeology) , population , medicine , environmental health , paleontology , biology
There were a number of issues confronting public health nurses in 1919, including the differentiation of practice between visiting nurses and public health nurses, use of community partnerships when developing a new nursing service in a community, and standards of nursing work. Other issues included the focus of nursing work at the community/population versus individual level, how to balance the work load where there was only one nurse in a community, and educating the public about the value of public health nursing to the community. In this excerpt from the original publication, Ella Phillips Crandall responded to questions raised at a round table session held in Chicago in 1919 as a part of a Public Health Nursing Forum, and then published in the October 1919 issue of The Public Health Nurse . While the social context in which PHN s worked in 1919 were significantly different from those nurses face today, these insights are prescient to the issues faced by PHN s today as the profession continues to address issues related to standards of practice, role development, and educational preparation for both entry level and advanced practice.