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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Forum on Public Health Nursing 2/7/12
Four Wisconsin Public Health Nurses will attend the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation forum on the Future of Nursing on Tuesday, February 7th , 2012 in Princeton, NJ: Gretchen Sampson, Health Officer & Director, Polk County, Julie Willems Van Dijk, Deputy Director of the County Health Roadmaps, UW-Madison Population Health Institute, Susan Zahner, Associate Professor, UW-Madison School of Nursing, and Janet Zoellner, Public Health Nursing Director, Rock County Health Department.Susan Zahner is presenting as part of a panel on nursing education. Results of the Wisconsin Future of Public Health Nursing Survey conducted in January, 2012, have been shared with the Wisconsin representatives to inform the discussion at the Forum. A summary report of all the survey responses (n=169) will be available through the LEAP website after the forum.
You can follow the RWJF Forum activities through Janet Zoellner’s blog at: http://phnmatters.blogspot.com/
or through her tweets: Follow @zoellnerphn
You can also follow the RWJF Forum through the http://NewPublicHealth.org site.
Politics and Public Health: Community Nursing, the County, and the State
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Rima D. Apple, Ph.D., Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has published extensively in women's history, the history of medicine and nursing, and the history of nutrition. Among her books are Perfect motherhood: Science and childrearing in America (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006) and Vitamania: Vitamins in American culture (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996) which received the Kremers Award, 1998, from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. She recently received the Mary Adelaide Nutting Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing from the American Association for the History of Nursing. Currently she is studying the history of rural public health nursing.
For more information on Rima Apple's work see her webpage.
Implications of the IOM Future of Nursing Report and the ACA for Public Health Nursing
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"Implications of the IOM Future of Nursing Report and the ACA for Public Health Nursing" is the title of this 30 minute presentation given at the the Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations Learning Institute in Washington, DC, on October 30, 2011. The presenter is Susan J. Zahner, DrPH, RN, Associate Professor at the School of Nursing at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Zahner is the Chair-Elect of the PHN Section of the American Public Health Association and Project Director of the Linking Education and Practice for Excellence in Public Health Nursing Project.
See the IOM report
LEAP announces a NEW Policy Development Toolkit
Find it on our Resources Wiki! http://research.son.wisc.edu/leap/resources.html
The Policy Development Toolkit was developed by the Northeastern Wisconsin Linking Education and Practice (NEWLEAP) Regional Learning Collaborative Policy Development Workgroup to guide nurses in identifying steps in policy development that may occur at the local, state, or national level. It includes information about the nurse’s role in policy development, Wisconsin laws, questions to address when developing policies, and the differences between policies, procedures and protocols. This toolkit also includes policy examples, templates and resources.
Student Projects Database goes live
Attention faculty, preceptors, and community & public health nursing students! The new Student Projects Database is now available for you to showcase the wonderful work you are doing in public health in Wisconsin!
This database was created by a state-wide committee of practice and academic public health nursing partners, lead by Jill Collier, DNSc, PHCNS, FNP, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, School of Nursing, to share C/PHN field site project ideas and outcomes.
The Student Projects Database is available on the Web at: http://www.uwosh.edu/phnursingstudentprojects
For more information (Download PDF flyer)
Watch the video “What is Public Health to You?” created by the Wood County Health Department. All video and pictures were taken in Wood County, Wisconsin. Spread awareness about where and what public health is in your community. Join the "This is Public Health" campaign designed by the Association of Schools of Public Health.
Three web-delivered, continuing education courses are available FREE for Wisconsin community/public health nurses (download registration instructions). For more information view the LEAP course directory online and download our PDF brochure.