The public health nurse's role in achieving health equity: Eliminating inequalities in health
Association of Public Health Nurses
The public health nurse's role in achieving health equity: Eliminating inequalities in health (PDF) discusses advancing health equity by building on the core competencies of public health nursing, and includes a supplemental resource list.
This 23-page position paper builds on existing public health nursing (PHN) core competencies, standards and skills to advance health equity. In addition there is a list of several resources to address the following topics:
- Awareness, trust, and humility
- Recognizing the multiple social determinants of health
- Leadership and achieving cultural competency
- PHN workforce education
- Celebrating diversity
- Evaluation and research
When to use
This document and the resources contained within can be used in a number of different ways and for varying purposes. For example:
- In a leadership team meeting to brainstorm how and where to incorporate work on health equity into public health nursing practice
- To develop talking points or discussion questions for a meeting with PHN staff
- To inform the development of individual staff work plans
- When developing job descriptions
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The public health nurse's role in achieving health equity: Eliminating inequalities in health (PDF)
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