Population-Based Public Health Clinical Manual: The Henry Street Model for Nurses has proven to be one of the most important public health texts for students and practitioners alike. Focused on developing evidence-based public health nursing practice in diverse settings and built on the framework of the Henry Street Consortium's 12 competencies for population-based, entry-level public health nursing, this full-color, new fourth edition is fully revised and updated to support readers' exploration of the field of public health nursing and the unique responsibilities and challenges that come with being a public health nurse.
- A new competency promoting, assessing, and coordinating population health
- Explanation of population health relevance of each competency
- SARs-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic examples/lessons learned
- Updated reference to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in each chapter
- Strengthened content for diversity, equity, and inclusion
Porta, Carolyn M.: - Carolyn M. Porta, PhD, MPH, RN, PHN, SANE-A, FAAN, FNAP, is an Associate Vice President for Clinical Aff airs at the University of Minnesota and a tenured Professor in the School of Nursing. She has worked as a public health nurse and sexual assault nurse examiner for more than 20 years. Porta's program of research broadly supports workforce development and the testing of interventions to promote mental health and prevent sexual misconduct. She teaches courses in research methods and advises undergraduate and graduate students. She now serves on the research committee of the International Association of Forensic Nurses and the editorial review board of Public Health Nursing, and she is an Associate editor of the Journal of Forensic Nursing.
Schoon, Patricia M.: - Patricia M. Schoon, DNP, MPH, RN, PHN, is a tenured Associate Professor at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a founding member of the Henry Street Consortium in 2001 and has taught nursing and public health for almost 50 years. She was the first geriatric nurse practitioner in the United States, in 1972. Schoon received the Minnesota Nurses Association Nurse Educator Award in 2005 for her work on Nurses' Day on the Hill and an online political advocacy toolkit. She has served as an appointed and elected officer of the American Nurses Association and the Minnesota Nurses Association. She received the Association of Community Nurse Educators 2016 Outstanding Contributions to Community/Public Health Nursing Education Award and the March of Dimes 2017 Minnesota Nurse of the Year Education and Research Award. Schoon recently helped develop and was President of the Omega Sigma chapter. She has also been President of Chi at-Large chapter and faculty advisor for the Zeta chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma). She has developed innovative programs in the community, including a foot-care clinic for the homeless, and a faith-based program for older adults, and collaborative community engagement projects with multiple community partners. She has coauthored articles on the Henry Street Consortium, the development of a foot-care clinic in a homeless shelter, and partnership engagement, an outcome of a Robert Wood Johnson Grant to develop best practices in academic-practice collaboration. In 2022 she coauthored an article on a new holistic health determinants model for public health nursing practice and education.
