Using public health nursing data for program advocacy.
Developing and maintaining public health nursing programs in an era of funding cutbacks is a challenge faced by all public health nursing administrators today. The authors describe the development, testing, and implementation of a public health nursing data collection method, which proved to be invaluable in describing and justifying public health nursing services to policy makers, legislative representatives, and community residents.
Ekstrand
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Bureau of Community Health Nursing, City and County of San Francisco, California.
Spear
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Thornley
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D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D012495:San Francisco