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Public health nursing education in Ireland and Norway: A comparative analysis
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2021-12-23
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Mulcahy, Helen
Leahy-Warren, Patricia
Laholt, Hilde
Philpott, Lloyd F.
Bergvoll, Lise-Marie
Clancy, Anne
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Background: Public health, primary health care, and nursing are founding principles of public health nursing. Thus, the underpinning curriculum needs to reflect these core principles. Public health nursing educators sought to delve deeper into curricula and training of public health nurse (PHNs) in Ireland and Norway. Objective: To compare PHNs’ educational training in Ireland and Norway through a collaborative process. Design: This study used a descriptive comparative design. Sample: A panel of expert educators (the authors) compared national Public health nursing education strategies, guidelines, and curricula used to train PHN students. Results: Four core categories emerged from the analysis: general characteristics, theoretical and empirical knowledge base for PHNs practice, applying theory to clinical practice, and professional/ethical dimensions for practice. Results revealed more similarities than differences in both countries’ educational models. The central difference related to the specialist role in Norway versus the generalist role in Ireland. Conclusions: Workforce requirements drive the delivery of Public Health Nursing programs and educational curricula. However, it is imperative that educators evaluate their curricula in terms of fitness and practice, not just purpose.
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Community health nursing; controlled study , Educational model , Ireland , Knowledge base , Norway , Nurse , Practice guideline , Theoretical study , Workforce , Process design
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Mulcahy, H., Leahy‐Warren, P., Laholt, H., Philpott, L. F., Bergvoll, L. and Clancy, A. (2022) ‘Public health nursing education in Ireland and Norway: A comparative analysis’, Public Health Nursing, 39(1), pp. 279-285. doi: 10.1111/phn.13039.
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© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mulcahy, H., Leahy-Warren, P., Laholt, H., Philpott, L. F., Bergvoll, L.-M., & Clancy, A. (2022). Public health nursing education in Ireland and Norway: A comparative analysis. Public Health Nursing, 39, 279– 285, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13039. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.