SiwanRN

You may have luck just contacting your local schools of nursing to see if you can volunteer for research experience.

Hm.. Are you a member of your state's public health association, or the American Public Health Association? If you are the only nurse and there is not another nurse (even one perhaps at the 3 county consortium) you can ask these questions, likely the...

I have no info on any midwifery education programs on whether or not they teach it, but I would encourage any student nurse (or student nurse midwife or student nurse practitioner) who is interested in learning more about abortion care to look at the...

If so it is not a rumor I have heard. Where is your source?

Hi Capybara123! You can work with sexual health in a public health capacity. Many local county or regional health departments offer STD testing and treatment services, and nurses usually work within or manage those programs. Depending where you are...

I wanted to be certified in public health nursing with the APHN-BC credential, but the ANCC retired it before I was eligible to apply. There is no other nursing-specific public health certification credential at this time and nor does ANCC seem to ha...

I am finishing my MPH this month!

As a nurse who works at a local health department and often sees these kiddos with letters from their school nurses for immunization compliance... THANK YOU for all the amazing work you do to help keep your school populations safe from vaccine preven...

As an active member of a national public health nursing professional organization, I can tell you there is plenty being done by nurses in all areas of healthcare about climate change and healthy environments! More education in terms of a DNP/PhD is c...

I am an aspiring MSF applicant as well, so I am hoping some others will jump in to provide us with answers to your questions.

Agree with above - as a suggestion, you might try calling your local public health department and let the receptionist know you are a nursing student with an assignment who would like to speak with a public health nurse. I work at a public health dep...

If you are working with children, it can help to give them some choice in the matter. They are getting the vaccine regardless, but letting them decide if they want to sit on their parent's lap or up on the exam table and which shoulder you use helps ...

I think it would probably just be like a regular corrections nursing job then, but not having worked at such a place, I couldn't say. I'd encourage you to also reach out to the corrections nursing forum too.

Are you referring to a US Public Health Services Commissioned Corps posting in a correctional facility, or a job description via a county/local jurisdiction that is for a nurse in a corrections facility and has 'public health nurse' in the job title?...

I don't have much to add to the NP side of things since I am not one, but this recent case out of California where RNs were doing laser hair removal under the chirpractor's supervision rather than a physician supervision would sure make me leery of w...

From what I understand in my participation in a national public health nursing professional organization, when they switched it to portfolio review back in .. 2016? The ANCC had less than 200 applicants per year and thus decided to retire it since th...

CoolKidsRN has great advice. In addition to above, sometimes it may help to have the 11 year old sitting up on the exam table, and then the parent standing in front of them to corral their legs (I dislike being kicked) and either bear hug or otherwis...

That's what I hear from senior nursing students that I precept.

Good luck in your interview! What kind of writing sample are they looking for? The nurses in my health department whose roles touch on emergency preparedness often have to do technical writing around things like the health department's protocols for ...

I wanted to get the Advanced Public Health Nurse - Board Certified (APHN-BC) certification, but they retired it before I could finish graduate school and be eligible. So I have nothing. I'll look at other public health certifications (CPH, CHES) in t...

I don't really have advice for how it is done for RNs, but I know historically at the health department where I work that public health nurses did do well child checks in the public health clinic. In talking with one of my senior colleagues who was t...

It's great that you know you are interested in public health already while you are still in school! It was the same way for me - I knew that I would never be happy working in a hospital. I live in the United States, so I can't really comment as to wh...

Oh I have an answer for this one! Join your local Medical Reserve Corps unit! They will *~*love*~* that you have HAM radio skills. Find your local chapter here: MRC Also, more specific to HAM radio, check out ARES: ARES

Here's some public health related ideas: Volunteer for Boulder County Public Health - Boulder County Mental Health Partners - Get Involved The Works Program - Boulder County Volunteer - Boulder County AIDS Project I believe Klone posted about Boulder...

I worked in a public health clinic, but I can relate to the ouch in the wallet - the hours are great, but the pay can be meh, especially since I was a new grad when I started. I picked up float shifts for an outpatient gyn surgery center to help with...