Public/Community Health Nursing Theory

 

Developed by:  Genevieve Monahan, PhD, RN

gmonahan@csulb.edu


Overview Topics Assignments Resources

Overview:  This module is designed to introduce students to community/public health

                      nursing theory for practice, education, and research


Topics:


Assignments:

                        Selected readings from course syllabus
                        Professional mission statement review
 


Resources:

                    Recommended text: Anderson, E.T., & McFarlane, J. (1996).  Community as Partner:  Theory
                    and Practice in Nursing (Second Edition).  New York, NY:  Lippincott.

 
 


Selected Bibliography:

    Allen, C.E. (1991).  Holistic concepts and the professionalization of public health nursing. Public Health Nursing, 8, 74-80.

    Baldwin, K.A., Chen, S.C. (1996).  Use of public health nursing services:  Relationship to adequacy of prenatal care and infant outcomes. Public Health Nursing, 13, 13-20.
 
    Barton, J.A., Brown, N.J. (1995).  Home visitation to migrant farm worker families:  An application of Zerwekh's  family caregiving model for public health nursing.  Holistic Nursing Practice, 9, 34-40.
 
    Beddome, G., Clarke, H.F., Whyte, N.B. (1993).  Vision for the future of public health nursing:  A case for primary health care.  Public Health Nursing, 10, 13-24.
 
    Buhler-Wilkerson, K. (1993).  Bringing care to the people:  Lillian Wald's legacy to public health nursing. American Journal of Public Health, 83, 1778-1786.
 
    Butterfield, P.G. (1990).  Thinking upstream: Nurturing a conceptual understanding of the societal context of health behavior.  Advances in Nursing Science, 12, 1-8.
 
    DeSantis, L. (1997).  Building healthy communities with immigrants and refugees. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 9, 20-31.
 
    Erickson, G.P. (1996).  To pauperize or empower:  Public health nursing at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.  Public Health Nursing, 13, 163-169.

    Fawcett, J. (1995).  Analysis and evaluation of conceptual models of nursing (3rd ed.).  Philadelphia, Penn.: J.B. Lippincott.
 
    Flynn, B. (1993).  Healthy cities:  the future of public health.  Health Care Trends and Transitions, 4, 14-28, 80.
                  
    Frenn, M. (1996).  Older adults' experience of health promotion:  A theory for nursing practice. Public Health Nursing, 13, 65-71.
 
   Haggart, M. (1993).  A critical analysis of Neuman's systems model in relation to public health nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 18, 1917-1922.
 
    Hanchett, E.S. (1990).  Nursing models and community as client.  Nursing Science Quarterly, 3, 67-72.
 
    Hatton, D.C. & Webb, T. (1993).  Information transmission in bilingual, bicultural contexts:  A field study of community health nurses and interpreters.  Journal of Community Health Nursing, 10, 137-147.
 
    Jones, M. & Nies, M.A. (1996).  The relationship of perceived benefits of and barriers to reported exercise in older African American women.  Public Health Nursing, 13, 151-158.
 
    Josten, L., Clarke, P.N., Ostwald, S., Stoskopf, C., Shannon, M.D. (1995).  Public health nursing education: Back to the future for public health sciences.  Family and Community Health, 18, 36-
 
    Kang, R. (1995).  Building community capacity for health promotion:  A challenge for public health nurses. Public Health Nursing, 12, 312-318.
 
    Keuhnert, P.S. (1995).  The interactive and organizational model of community as client:  A model for public health nursing practice.  Public Health Nursing, 12, 9-17.

    Kuss, T., Proulx-Girouard, L., Lovitt, S., Katz, C.B., Kennelly, P. (1997).  A public health nursing model.  Public Health Nursing, 14, 81-91.
 
    Littman, P.S. & Ritterbusch, J. (1997).  Tried, true, and new:  Public health nursing in a county substance abuse treatment system.  Public Health Nursing, 14, 286-292.
 
    Mahon, J., McFarlane, J., & Golden, K. (1991).  De Madres a Madres:  A community partnership for health. Public Health Nursing, 8, 15-19.
 
    Meleis, A.I. (1992).  Community participation and involvement.  Theoretical and empirical issues.  Health Services Management Research, 5, 5-6.
 
    Misener, T.R., Alexander, J.W., Blaha, A.J., Clarke, P.N., Cover, C.M., Felton, G.M., Fuller, S.G.,
 
    Herman, J., Rodes, M.M., Sharp, H.F. (1997).  National Delphi study to determine competencies for nursing leadership in public health.  Image Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 29, 47-51.
 
    Misener, T.R., Watkins, J.G. (1994).  Public health nursing research priorities:  A collaborative Delphi study. Public Health Nursing, 11, 66-74.
 
    Miskelly, S. (1995).  A parish nursing model:  Applying the community health nursing process in a church community.  Journal of Community Health Nursing, 12, 1-14.
 
    Pavri, J.M. (1994).  One hundred years of public health nursing:  Visions of a better world.  Imprint, 41, 43-48.
 
    Portnoy, F.L., Dumas, L. (1994).  Nursing for the public good.  Nursing Clinics of North America, 29, 371-376.
 
    Rains, J.W., Wiles Ray, D. (1995). Participatory action research for community health promotion. Public Health Nursing, 12, 256-261.
 
    Reifsnider, E. (1995).  The use of human ecology and epidemiology in nonorganic failure to thrive. Public Health Nursing, 12, 262-268.
 
    Reilly, F.E. (1994).  An ecological approach to health risk:  A case study of urban elderly homeless people. Public Health Nursing, 11, 305-314.
 
    Reutter, L., Neufeld, A., Harrison, M.J. (1995).  Using critical feminisit principles to analyze programs for low-income urban women.  Public Health Nursing, 12, 424-431.
 
    Reverby, S.M. (1993).  From Lillian Wald to Hillary Rodham Clinton:  What will happen to public health nursing?  American Journal of Public Health, 83, 1662-1663.
 
    Salmon, M.E. (1993).  Editorial:  Public health nursing -- The opportunity of a century.  American Journal of Public Health, 83, 1674-1675.
 
    Spradley, B.W. & Allender, J.A. (1997).  Readings in community health nursing, (5th ed.). New York, NY: Lipincott-Raven.
 
    Stevens, P.E. & Hall, J.M. (1992).  Applying critical theories to nursing in communities. Public Health Nursing, 9, 2-9.
 
    Utz, S.W., Shuster, G.F. 3rd, Merwin, E., Williams, B. (1994).  A community-based smoking-cessation program:  self-care behaviors and success.  Public Health Nursing, 11,  291-299.
 
    Vicenzi, A.E. (1994).  Chaos theory and some nursing considerations.  Nursing Science Quarterly, 7, 36-42.
 
    Zerwekh. J.V. (1993).  Commentary:  Going to the people -- Public health nursing today and tomorrow. American Journal of Public Health, 83, 1676-1677,
 
    Zerwekh, J.V. (1992).  The practice of empowerment and coercion by expert public health nurses.  Image  Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 24, 101-105

 
 
 


Overview Topics Assignments Resources Selected Bibliography

last updated: September 15, 2000

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Genevieve Monahan, Ph.D., RN
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