The road to population health: using Healthy People 2010 in nursing education.
Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health and corresponding state health improvement plans provide roadmaps for planning, monitoring, and evaluating population health improvement in the United States. These documents offer relevant guidance for nursing education because they address health workforce education specifically, use a population perspective, and include evidence-based action priorities. However, information about how these documents are used in nursing education is limited. This article discusses the relevance of national and state health planning documents for nursing education. Nurse educators are encouraged to reflect on the alignment of current nursing education efforts with national and state health planning agendas. Suggestions for future use of national and state population health improvement planning documents in guiding strategic, curricular, and course planning are offered.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing, WI 53792, USA. sjzahner@wisc.edu
Susan J
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Zahner
Derryl E
DE
Block
D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005544:Forecasting; D006285:Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D040361:Healthy People Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States