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Translating the Core Competencies for Public Health into Action
September 23, 2009
“Relationship between the Core Competencies for Public Health and PHN
Discipline Specific Competencies”
Donna Meagher-Stewart, PhD, RNAssociate ProfessorSchool of Nursing
Dalhousie University
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Vision:Through collaborative planning, all jurisdictions in Canada will have a flexible, knowledgeable public health workforce working in safe supportive environments to meet the population's public health needs, & reduce health & social disparities.
Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada: Release 1.0(Launched Sept, 2007)
36 statements organized under 7 categories:
1. Public Health Sciences
2. Assessment & Analysis
3. Policy & Program Planning, Implementation & Evaluation
4. Partnerships, Collaboration & Advocacy
5. Diversity & Inclusiveness
6. Communication
7. Leadership
Public health needs of the population
Define the public health workforce for planning purposes
Gather data on the public health
workforce
Identify core public health services
Identify function-specific** public
health competencies
Identify core* public health competencies
Develop worker competency
assessment tools and incentives
Align education programs to reflect competencies and interprofessional
practice
Develop organizational competency
assessment tools and incentives
Map the competencies of each discipline against the
core and function-specific competencies
Develop recruitment / retention strategies to
attract required competencies
Develop structures to support
interprofessional education (space, time, instructors)
Deploy workforce in interprofessional
models based on their competencies
Identify best practices in interprofessional
deployment
Identify best practices in recruitment and retention
Identify best practices in education (including placements, continuing
education)
Develop accreditation
standards / quality control measures
Development of the Public HealthNursing Discipline Specific Competencies Version 1.0 (Launched June 2009)
Built from:• Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada
Release 1.0
• Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice (CHNAC, 2008)– Mapping document of interconnection of Standards and PHN
competencies
• Public health nursing practice in Canada: A review of the literature (Hogan, 2008)
• Delphi process for consensus
Public Health Nursing Competencies
Integrated knowledge, skills, judgement, and attributes required of a public health nurse to
practice safely and ethically.
Attributes include, but are not limited to attitudes, values and beliefs (CNA Code of Ethics, 2008)
Public Health Nursing Discipline Specific Competencies Version 1.0 (Launched June 2009)
66 statements organized under 8 categories:
1. Public Health & Nursing Sciences
2. Assessment & Analysis
3. Policy & Program Planning, Implementation, & Evaluation
4. Partnerships, Collaboration, & Advocacy
5. Diversity & Inclusiveness
6. Communication
7. Leadership
8. Professional Responsibility and Accountability
Core Competencies vs. PHN Discipline Specific Competencies
Core Competencies for Public Health PHN Discipline Specific Competencies1.0 Public Health Sciences 1. Public Health and Nursing Sciences
2.0 Assessment and Analysis 2. Assessment and Analysis
3.0 Policy and Program Planning 3. Policy and Program Planning, Implementation and Evaluation
3(A) – Policy Development3(B) – Program Planning3(C) – Implementation And Intervention3(D) - Evaluation
4.0 Partnerships, CollaborationAnd Advocacy
4. Partnerships, CollaborationAnd Advocacy
5.0 Diversity and Inclusiveness 5. Diversity and Inclusiveness
6.0 Communication 6. Communication
7.0 Leadership 7. Leadership
8. Professional Responsibility and Accountability
Relationship between Core Competencies &
PHN Discipline Specific Competencies
1. Public Health & Nursing Sciences
2. Assessment & Analysis
3. Policy & Program Planning,
Implementation & Evaluation
4. Partnerships, Collaboration & Advocacy
5. Diversity & Inclusiveness
6. Communication
7. Leadership
8. Prof Resp & Accountability
• 7 vs 5
• 9 vs 6
• 25** vs 8
• 5 vs 4
• 3 vs 3
• 4 vs 4
• 6 vs 6
• 7
PHN Discipline Specific Competencies
• Nursing science & broad range of theories, models, & frameworks
• Social justice & equity
• Evidence-informed decision making
• Population health focus
• Traditional and social epidemiology
• Multiple strategies
• Advocacy for healthy public policy, societal change & reduction of inequity
• Professional responsibility and accountability
Relationship between Core Competencies &
PHN Discipline Specific Competencies
1. Public Health & Nursing Sciences1..0 & 1.2 -same
• 1.3 Apply public health & nursing sciences to practice & synthesize knowledge
from a broad range of theories, models, and frameworks.
• 1.4 Critically appraise knowledge gathered from a variety of sources.
• 1.5. Use evidence and research to inform health policies, programs, and practice: contribute to the development & generation of EBN; use available resources to systematically plan & evaluate PHN practice.
• 1.6. Pursue lifelong learning opportunities in the field of public health that are consistent with: current public health nursing practice; new & emerging issues; the changing needs of individuals, families, groups, and communities; emerging research & evolving information about the impact of the determinants of health.
• 1.7 Integrate multiple ways of knowing into practice.•
Community Health Nurses of Canada Ongoing Development
• Home health competencies
• Public health manager competencies
• Community health nursing competencies for baccalaureate nursing graduates