Professional Development for Public Health Nurses

This School is designed to help public health nurses assess skills, gain professional development guidance, and discover appropriate learning opportunities and resources to meet their goals.

Public Health Nursing is the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social and public health sciences (APHA, Public Health Nursing Section, 1996). Public health nursing is unique within the discipline of nursing because the community is the client.

Your Professional Roadmap

Step 1: Review the public health nursing competencies by clicking "Competencies" on the right-hand side of this page. You may also want to review the North Carolina Board of Nursing (NCBON) Reflective Practice Re-Licensure requirements.

Step 2: Assess your skills.

A self assessment tool is available that can help you to assess your professional development needs—in terms of both your NCBON requirements and the Quad Council Public Health Nursing Competencies. You can access the self assessment by clicking "Self Assessment" on the right-hand side of this page.

Step 3: Develop a learning plan.

Once you have assessed your current skills and identified your professional development needs, develop your learning plan. You can find a sample learning plan and other tools at:
http://ncpublichealthnursing.org/ncbon.htm

Step 4: Search for learning opportunities.

Once you have developed your learning plan, you can search for learning opportunities by clicking "Learning Opportunities" on the right-hand side of this page.