The recommendations for nurses to become culturally competent fall into two categories. The first focuses on the content and structure of the encounter between provider and patient; the second charges providers with becoming knowledge about the culture of their patients. Cultural competence is really nursing competence--the capacity to be equally…

Presents a community analysis plan used at the University of Colorado to develop a graduate-level community health nursing program. Examines a model that describes different possibilities for including the aggregate in community health nursing programs. States that community health nursing will be strengthened by developing associations between…

If nursing education commits itself to preparing public health nurses for leadership in public health, it will be committing itself to self-examination, redirection, and change that will reflect the crucial balance between nursing and public health at all levels. (JOW)

A study was designed to answer the question: Is the baccalaureate-prepared nurse able to function satisfactorily as a staff nurse in an official public health agency? Findings indicate that health agency staff and education program faculty must work together to define the purpose, objectives, and content of the clinical experience. (JOW)

Discusses the graduate program in community health nursing at the University of Colorado that is structured according to the aggregate/family and group model. Describes the development of the program and its evaluation. (JOW)

Mereness describes her half-century career as an educator and pioneer in psychiatric and public health nursing. (SK)

A description of a group leadership course for nurses concentrating on the use, formation, and dynamics of groups within the context of clinical public health nursing in the community includes objectives and content areas (identifying needs, and considering self-concepts and interpersonal relationships). (AG)

A model of family caregiving by public health nurses includes these competencies: encouraging self-help, locating and building trust, timing and detecting, being available, mobilizing, collaborating, resolving problems and crises, working through emotions, fostering family understanding, educating parents, persuading, and saving children. (SK)

Practitioners, educators, and administrators in public health nursing were asked who, in their opinion, has responsibility for community-focused functions. Though all categories agreed that the functions of assessment, analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation are important to public health nursing, there is little agreement about which…

Attempts a functional operational definition of "community" to be used by community health nurses and students in their daily practice. States that community can refer to the context or arena in which change operates, or it can be the source of environmental or social factors viewed as less than desirable. (CT)

To combat extreme health conditions in Armenia, nurses and physicians were given pretraining in community health at home and additional training in the United States on change strategies and community-based practice. Unforeseen barriers to change hindered progress, but participants were committed to preventive community health care. (SK)

Part of a worldwide movement, Healthy Cities Indiana is a community development approach to health promotion that involves a public-private partnership and citizen participation in examining community health problems. Development of community leaders is an essential part. (SK)

Examines the public health nurses' need for synthesis of general background knowledge in nursing. Lists core curriculum essentials in baccalaureate level nursing education and discusses the synthesis process and integration of field and course work. (CT)

Offers practice models for community-based nursing and community health nursing that demonstrate the different roles, philosophies, and activities of the two approaches. Points to curriculum changes that are needed to prepare students to practice in an increasingly community-oriented health care industry. (Author)