Population Health Nursing

AACN is pleased to announce the availability of a Public/Population Health Nursing Assessment Vignette to measure BSN level competencies in population health. The vignette can be used as part of a course in population or public health or as part of an end-of-program course to determine student ability to synthesize population health concepts with other knowledge/skills across the patient care continuum. Additionally, the vignette can be used as a learning tool for individuals or as a group discussion tool. This vignette was piloted and found to be a valid and reliable measure of identified population health/public health nursing competencies. Faculty can use the vignette as a template for development of additional vignettes to assess competencies delineated in the AACN Essentials Population Health Domain. The development of the vignette was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Academic Partnerships to Improve Health initiative. For more information or to access the vignette, click here.

Through this initiative, nursing schools will pledge their support to safely engage faculty, students, and other stakeholders in the work underway to administer the vaccine and educate citizens on protecting themselves against this public health threat.