{"title":"The Global Network of Public Health Nursing (GNPHN).","authors":"Karen Whittaker, Cheryll Adams, Kari Glavin","doi":"10.1111/phn.13045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":233433,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39829031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martina Giltenane, Ann Sheridan, Thilo Kroll, Kate Frazer
{"title":"Work environment challenging Irish public health nurses' care quality: First postnatal visit.","authors":"Martina Giltenane, Ann Sheridan, Thilo Kroll, Kate Frazer","doi":"10.1111/phn.12993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12993","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Exploring views and experiences of public health nurses of their work environment and measurement of care practices at first postnatal visits.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>An exploratory qualitative design. Data collected using four focus groups and analyzed using thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Sample: </strong>Nineteen public health nurses from four health service regions in Ireland participated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Two themes emerged. Theme one identified \"challenges of providing a quality service.\" Public health nurses identified workload demands and that the working environment can detract from the ability to provide a quality service. Challenges within the home, language barriers, and lack of support from management were key issues. Theme two identified \"challenges of measuring quality of public health nursing practice.\" While Measuring practice through quantitative outcomes such as key performance indicators were viewed as inadequate to measure the quality of care provided, positive views of using quality process indicators to measure the quality of their practice emerged.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Key issues concern the working environment of public health nurses and challenges of providing and measuring care practices. Absence of appropriate supports and resources means public health nurses work hard to provide quality care. Public health nurses were confident they would score high on quality process measurements of their practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":233433,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)","volume":" ","pages":"202-213"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39538803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Island communities and disaster resilience: Applying the EnRiCH community resilience framework.","authors":"Audrey Snyder, Stephanie Matthew, Nancy Leahy, Raiden Gaul, Tiffany Lee Hood, Kyler Hijmans, Gwyneth Milbrath","doi":"10.1111/phn.13007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To explore the beliefs, attitudes, and perspectives of community resilience in St. Kitts and Nevis.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis using the EnRiCH Community Resilience Framework for High-Risk Populations (EnRiCH Framework) to identify factors that enhance or create barriers to community resilience to disasters in St. Kitts and Nevis.</p><p><strong>Sample: </strong>Twenty-one key informants and 23 community informants provided insight into the history of disasters.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Unique strengths and barriers that significantly influenced this high-risk population's adaptive capacity were identified. A discrepancy between the way disaster preparedness was perceived by government officials and the local population was noted. Cultural factors promoted connectedness and communication and created barriers to empowerment and collaboration. Innovative strategies were suggested that could enhance upstream leadership, downstream management, and resource management during disasters.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Island communities represent a unique opportunity to examine risk reduction and vulnerability within the context of community and societal characteristics. This research addresses a significant gap in the literature on interventions that utilize a strengths-based approach to building adaptive capacity and resilience to disasters among at-risk populations. The EnRiCH Framework can be used to develop an approach to strengthen adaptive capacity and improve resilience to disasters.</p>","PeriodicalId":233433,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)","volume":" ","pages":"62-70"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39678652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reproductive justice and black lives: A concept analysis for public health nursing.","authors":"Kathryn Burger, Robin Evans-Agnew, Susan Johnson","doi":"10.1111/phn.12919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12919","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Inequities in maternal mortality in the United States are a form of structural violence against Black women. The concept of reproductive justice has been employed in the social sciences for almost 30 years, yet nursing has been slow to adopt this concept in promoting maternal-child health.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To analyze the concept of reproductive justice as used in peer-reviewed publications with the aim of reframing black maternal health in public health nursing scholarship, research, practice, and advocacy.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>We conducted a systematic review of the social science literature. We analyzed selected articles though a principle-based concept analysis focusing on epistemological, pragmatic, linguistic, and logical principles.</p><p><strong>Sample: </strong>Eight articles were selected from a pool of 377.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Race was identified as a source of power for understanding reproductive justice through individual knowledge, collective knowledge, and praxis. Pragmatically, reproductive justice is a social justice-oriented platform that bridges the pro-choice/pro-life divide; aids coalition building; and promotes inclusion. Linguistically, the concept is distinct from both reproductive health and reproductive rights. Reproductive justice is logically situated within intersectionality theory and the cumulative embodiment of oppressions Black women experience based on race, class, and gender.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Reproductive justice reframes public health nursing actions for Black women by focusing on uncovering systems of oppression, recognizing past historical injustices, and advancing cultural safety in health promotion. Multilevel interventions are needed to simultaneously address these injustices particularly in the areas of preconception health, maternal health, infant and child health, and Black family well-being across the reproductive lifespan.</p>","PeriodicalId":233433,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)","volume":" ","pages":"238-250"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/phn.12919","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38967173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keneshia Bryant, George Pro, Martha Rojo, Jenil Patel, Tiffany Haynes, Pearl McElfish, Manny Sepulveda, Camille Hart
{"title":"Identifying community needs of the Hispanic faith community to develop a research agenda.","authors":"Keneshia Bryant, George Pro, Martha Rojo, Jenil Patel, Tiffany Haynes, Pearl McElfish, Manny Sepulveda, Camille Hart","doi":"10.1111/phn.12973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12973","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To conduct a community health needs assessment among the Hispanic faith community population to develop a community-partnered research agenda.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A cross-sectional design was used to conduct a community needs assessment using a community-based participatory research approach SAMPLE: Hispanic faith community members in Central Arkansas.</p><p><strong>Measurement: </strong>Data collection was led by Hispanic faith leaders using an audience response system at places of worship. An 88-item Community Health Needs Assessment survey was used that included demographic questions and questions related to five domains including community concerns, community resources, healthcare access, health concerns, and hunger and nutrition.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were a total of 100 participants in the community needs assessment. Hunger and nutrition was the highest ranking community concern followed by healthcare access.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Based upon the results of the study, the university researchers and Hispanic faith community members have begun the initial steps to developing a research agenda to address the major concerns of the community.</p>","PeriodicalId":233433,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)","volume":" ","pages":"33-39"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/c2/5b/PHN-39-33.PMC9291199.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39435939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The introduction of electronic consent for the school aged immunization program.","authors":"Rebecca Footer, Owen Foster","doi":"10.1111/phn.13016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Historically, consent for treatment in the United Kingdom's National Health Service has been collected using traditional paper forms. For public health services, such as immunizations, this process involved significant time, space, paper, and staff resources. In a bid to provide a more modern, secure, cost-effective and paperless service, an electronic consent (eConsent) form for the routine school aged immunization program was designed and successfully piloted for the HPV 1 vaccine in 25 schools during the summer of 2019, with an average of 80% return rate. This was not only significantly higher than paper consent returns, there was also a significantly quicker return rate. These factors resulted in the clinical record being updated more quickly than ever before which reduced clinical risk. Following the pilot, the program was launched countywide for all school aged immunizations in September 2020. Since its launch some minor issues have been identified but resolved quickly and efficiently. Although still in its early days it is felt that the eConsent system has promoted a more informed and easier collaboration across sectors and has reduced operating costs. Although the use of electronic consent needs to be used more widely, it is felt that this new practice is a success.</p>","PeriodicalId":233433,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)","volume":" ","pages":"320-325"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39956073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"No Man Is an Island\": Perspectives of CHamorus in Guam on COVID-19.","authors":"Lucy Joo-Castro, Amanda Emerson","doi":"10.1111/phn.13018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Guam is a United States territory situated in the western Pacific Ocean with a multiethnic population numbering approximately 168,000. The CHamorus, who are the Indigenous people of Guam, make up 37%. In this study, we sought to explore CHamorus' perspectives on and experiences of COVID-19.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Interviews were conducted with 10 CHamoru adults in June-July 2020 via telephone for a larger study on understanding how the collective history of the CHamoru people is perceived relative to contemporary health beliefs and practices. This study is a secondary data analysis of questions that focused on COVID-19. We used thematic analysis techniques to analyze the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Three themes were identified: self and other, or \"no man is an island\"; trust in government; and focusing on the positives. A cross-cutting theme was commitment to the common welfare of the community through interconnectedness and inafa'maolek (doing good for others).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Results indicated that CHamorus recognized a balance between community and individual, the need to protect the vulnerable while also considering personal choice, and the implications of enforced social distancing on community and economic stability.</p>","PeriodicalId":233433,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)","volume":" ","pages":"89-95"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39656871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chinese adolescents' sexual and reproductive health education: A quasi-experimental study.","authors":"Xing Ma, Yuanyuan Yang, Ka Ming Chow, Yuli Zang","doi":"10.1111/phn.12914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12914","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study investigated the effectiveness of an interactive sexual and reproductive health education program in aspects of knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy among adolescents.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Quasi-experimental study underpinned by social cognitive theory.</p><p><strong>Sample: </strong>A stratified cluster sample of 469 students from the two-branch middle school in a city in eastern China who were assigned to the experimental (n = 233) and control (n = 236) groups.</p><p><strong>Measurements: </strong>Students' sexual knowledge, attitudes, and refusal self-efficacy were assessed before (T0), immediately after (T1), and 1 month after the intervention (T2), respectively.</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>Students in the experimental group received two 40-min sessions of the educational program while the control group received the usual mode of sexual and reproductive health education.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared with the control group, students in the experimental group acquired more sexual knowledge (p < .01), and developed more positive sexual attitudes (p < .05) and stronger sexual self-efficacy (p < .05) across the study period.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The proposed sexual and reproductive health education program incorporating various interactive activities was effective and could be used for school-based implementation led by nurses and other health care workers.</p>","PeriodicalId":233433,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)","volume":" ","pages":"116-125"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/phn.12914","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38951276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chikako Honda, Yuka Sumikawa, Kyoko Yoshioka-Maeda, Riho Iwasaki-Motegi, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani
{"title":"Confusions and responses of managerial public health nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.","authors":"Chikako Honda, Yuka Sumikawa, Kyoko Yoshioka-Maeda, Riho Iwasaki-Motegi, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani","doi":"10.1111/phn.13011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to elucidate the experiences of public health nurses (PHNs) in Japan during the first wave of COVID-19.</p><p><strong>Design and sample: </strong>Twelve PHNs in charge of responding to COVID-19 in X-city within Tokyo metropolis in Japan participated in this case study.</p><p><strong>Measurements: </strong>Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires and semi-structured interviews on PHNs' experiences from January 2020 to May 2020.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Initially, only infectious disease control division (IDCD) PHNs experienced confusion due to the rapidly increased workload. Managerial PHNs attempted to explain the need for a dispatch system for the IDCD, using available statistical data from other managerial members, within one's maximum understanding of this unprecedented situation. Without having a clear and forward-looking understanding regarding the purpose and reasons for dispatching, some dispatched PHNs had concerns and frustrations; they did not view the COVID-19 pandemic as a disaster. In the never-ending, exhausting work, PHNs managed to modify the provision of conventional services to residents.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Despite experiencing confusion, PHNs worked to continuously provide community services, re-considering the meaning of public health nursing. Prioritizing the work and shifting tasks to other professionals at an early stage of the pandemic may prevent organizational dysfunction.</p>","PeriodicalId":233433,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)","volume":" ","pages":"161-169"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661713/pdf/PHN-39-161.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39872251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hilde Laholt, Lise-Marie Bergvoll, Sunniva Solhaug Fjelldal, Anne Clancy
{"title":"An analysis of Norwegian public health nursing curricula: Where is the nursing literature?","authors":"Hilde Laholt, Lise-Marie Bergvoll, Sunniva Solhaug Fjelldal, Anne Clancy","doi":"10.1111/phn.12979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12979","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Norwegian public health nurses prevent diseases and promote health in children and young people aged 0-20 and their families. Public health nursing programs prepare students for their practical role and provide relevant theoretical knowledge.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To gain knowledge of the literature in the Norwegian public health nursing curricula, and to examine further the nursing base in these curricula.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>An explorative and descriptive design was chosen.</p><p><strong>Sample: </strong>Reading lists based on syllabus documents from the 10 higher educational institutions in Norway offering programs in public health nursing.</p><p><strong>Measurements: </strong>A summative content analysis and a categorization of content from reading lists were performed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Numerical information on the content and categorization of reading lists shows that social science and humanities literature dominates, followed by psychology and medicine. Nursing texts, theories and philosophy comprise only a minor part of the curricula.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The paper provides valuable data on the theoretical focus in Norwegian public health nursing and raises important questions about the paucity of nursing texts in the curriculum. The imbalance in reading lists in Norway should be studied further and similar studies conducted in other countries to encourage reflection on the theoretical content of public health nursing education globally.</p>","PeriodicalId":233433,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)","volume":" ","pages":"251-261"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39467992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}