Issel L Michele, Baldwin Kathleen A, Lyons Roberta L, Madamala Kusuma
University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Public Health Nurs. 2006 Mar-Apr;23(2):168-77. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2006.230208.x.
Having a public health workforce with a high level of competency is a prerequisite for having an effective public health system. The purpose of these two studies was to assess the competency level of practicing public health nurses (PHNs; n=168) from 50 local health agencies and public health nursing faculty (n=46) from 31 nursing programs in Illinois. The questionnaire consisted of nine reliable scales using self-reported levels of competence in each PHN competency domain. Overall, PHNs reported only feeling competent in one domain: "linking people to services." Although PHN faculty felt competent across the nine domains, they did not report feeling competent to teach any of the domains. Thus, PHNs and public health nursing faculty need education and training to meet the professionally established level of competence.
拥有一支具备高水平能力的公共卫生工作队伍是建立有效公共卫生系统的先决条件。这两项研究的目的是评估来自伊利诺伊州50个地方卫生机构的执业公共卫生护士（PHN；n = 168）以及来自31个护理项目的公共卫生护理教员（n = 46）的能力水平。问卷由九个可靠的量表组成，采用自我报告的各公共卫生护士能力领域的能力水平。总体而言，公共卫生护士仅报告在一个领域感到胜任：“将人们与服务联系起来”。尽管公共卫生护理教员在九个领域都感到胜任，但他们并未报告有能力教授任何一个领域。因此，公共卫生护士和公共卫生护理教员需要接受教育和培训，以达到专业设定的能力水平。
