title: Advancing population-based health-promotion and prevention practice in community-health nursing: key conditions for change.
abstract: Community-health nursing practice is a pivotal aspect of present-day health reforms. In Quebec, Canada, the recent introduction of a population-based approach has entailed increasing the resources allocated to health promotion and disease prevention. Semistructured interviews were conducted with nurses and managers (N = 69) in an effort to understand how these new resources are reflected in nursing practice. Three classes of factors emerged as key conditions for change: contextual and historical, training and professional-development, and work-organization factors. The authors propose courses of action respecting these conditions to provide support for community-health nursing practices that incorporate a contemporary population-based approach.
authors: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal Public Health Research Institute, Quebec, Canada. nbeaudet@santepub-mtl.qc.ca
authors: Nicole
authors: N
authors: Beaudet
authors: Lucie
authors: L
authors: Richard
authors: Sylvie
authors: S
authors: Gendron
authors: Nancy
authors: N
authors: Boisvert
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011792:Quebec; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration