About the Project
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The purpose of the Linking Education and Practice for Excellence in Public Health Nursing Project (LEAP Project) is to improve competency for public health nursing practice in a changing public health system by educating public health nurses, student nurses, and nursing faculty in the knowledge and skills required for providing population-based, culturally competent public health nursing services. (NEPR Practice Priority Area Purpose P-3).
The overarching goal of this project is to contribute to population health improvement and the reduction of health disparities by developing a sufficient, highly skilled, diverse, and visible public health nursing workforce in Wisconsin. This statewide, collaborative public health nursing workforce education and practice improvement project will address needs for new knowledge and skills in population-based public health nursing practice among students, faculty, and practicing public health nurses. The project is expected to have a direct impact on nurses in local, state, and tribal public health departments, and on student nurses and faculty in nursing education programs in all areas of the state.
The LEAP Project has three primary goals:
- The project will increase the percent of students graduating from nursing education programs educated in basic concepts and skills required for providing nursing services with a population-based public health practice perspective.
- establishing regional learning collaboratives composed of practicing nurses and academic faculty which will focus on developing best practices and strategies for population-based and culturally competent field experiences for nursing students
- providing web-delivered continuing education for nurse preceptors working with student nurses
- providing continuing education in competencies required for population-based, culturally competent public health practice to nursing faculty
- The project will assure that nurses beginning public health nursing practice develop competencies required for population-based, culturally competent public health nursing practice.
- creating and implementing a formal orientation/internship program for new public health nurses that will utilize distance-based technologies and mentoring by experienced public health staff
- The project aims to improve the competency for population-based, culturally competent public health practice in currently practicing public health nurses.
- providing web-delivered continuing education courses to public health nurses
- developing a web-based system for ongoing information dissemination and communication between public health nurses
Activities addressing this aim will include:
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Activities to support this aim will include:
The project will be guided by an advisory committee of representatives from academic programs and public health agencies.
