Public Health Nursing: Making a Difference for Everybody, Everywhere, Everyday

Are you looking for a specialty practice within nursing where you can work independently, use your creativity, your voice, your love of people and communities, and impact the health and well being of others in a positive way? Are you interested in health care planning, management, advocacy or teaching?

Then look no further. Public Health Nursing offers opportunities to:

• enjoy a rewarding and professionally satisfying nursing career
• practice in a setting that is diverse and challenging and affords opportunities to work independently as well as through team efforts and collaboration
• focus on disease prevention and the promotion of health and safety of individuals, families, groups, and communities
• empower communities to determine their own strengths, needs, and solutions
• use education as a key component for positive change
• utilize problem solving skills and develop leadership potential
• assure access to affordable health services for all people
• collect and analyze health related data
• conduct community assessments
• prepare and analyze budgets
• participate in epidemiological investigations
• eliminate health disparities
• shape health policy

Embrace a nursing career that encourages life-long learning and service. Become a Public Health Nurse and make a difference for everyone!