"Public Health Nursing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A nursing specialty concerned with promoting and protecting the health of populations, using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences to develop local, regional, state, and national health policy and research. It is population-focused and community-oriented, aimed at health promotion and disease prevention through educational, diagnostic, and preventive programs.
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D011637
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.478.676.755
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| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Public Health Nursing" by people in Profiles.
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Faculty perspectives on transitioning public health nursing clinical to virtual in response to COVID-19. Public Health Nurs. 2021 09; 38(5):907-912.
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COVID-19 updates: Real-time epidemiology for BSN community/public health nursing course. Public Health Nurs. 2021 07; 38(4):655-660.
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The intersection of climate change with the era of COVID-19. Public Health Nurs. 2021 03; 38(2):321-335.
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A scholarly concentration program to promote public health nursing for generalist Clinical Nurse Leader students. J Prof Nurs. 2021 Mar-Apr; 37(2):348-353.
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Developing sustainable public health care systems for responding to COVID-19 in Japan. Public Health Nurs. 2021 05; 38(3):470-472.
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The impact of COVID-19 on the hospice and palliative care workforce. Public Health Nurs. 2021 05; 38(3):459-463.
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Perceived risk of infection and smoking behavior change during COVID-19 in Ohio. Public Health Nurs. 2020 11; 37(6):854-862.
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Service learning in public health nursing education: How COVID-19 accelerated community-academic partnership. Public Health Nurs. 2021 03; 38(2):248-257.
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School Nursing and Public Health: The Case for School Nurse Investigators and Contact Tracing Monitors of COVID-19 Patients in Massachusetts. NASN Sch Nurse. 2020 Nov; 35(6):327-331.
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COVID-19: What is next for nursing in public health emergency? Nurse Educ Pract. 2020 07; 46:102821.