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2 Public Policy and Public Health Nursing
Pages 7-14

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From page 7...
... Public health and community nurses are a part of prevention, primary care, emergency care, and longterm care across all settings, from isolated rural areas to bustling cities. This type of care involves hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, private providers, home and community settings, and even the media.
From page 8...
... The governmental public health system is not solely responsible for ensuring public health. It has to work with many partners to achieve its objectives, including other parts of the health care system, Native American tribes, schools, social service agencies, environmental organizations, businesses, emergency management agencies, and homeland security.
From page 9...
... Public health nurses sometimes double as health navigators to get people in the community the right information to help them make decisions for themselves, which can be further complicated when facing language and cultural differences.
From page 10...
... PUBLIC POLICY IMPLICATIONS Ensuring public health has important implications for the involvement of nurses in public policy, said Selecky. First, public health cannot be separated from politics.
From page 11...
... Public health leaders and nurses need to provide a buffer and a bridge between the political world and the health world. Larry Wallack, dean of Portland State University's College of Urban and Public Affairs, once said, "I have never heard data say a word.
From page 12...
... there are a lot of resources to build on." A member of the audience asked about the role of public health nurses in community evaluations and interventions, and Selecky responded that she would like to have nurses represented in many state divisions, such as the division of environmental health. Nurses could look at issues such as asthma, which is common in Washington State.
From page 13...
... "Perhaps we need to have public health nurses embedded within our mental health system, and vice versa," she suggested.


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