Evaluation of a statewide public health nursing training in Utah.
Public health nurses continue to struggle to provide culturally relevant services that focus on the multiple needs of an ethnically diverse population while at the same time providing services to the population at large. This article describes the formative research, implementation, and results of a statewide effort to broaden UtahAEs public health nurses perception about their role and responsibility in addressing and serving the emerging needs of underserved and atrisk populations in Utah. A total of 51% of Utah state and local health department public health nurses participated in the training. There was a statistically significant increase in the mean level of perceived understanding of topic material from pretest to posttest, and 80% of participants reported applying what they learned in the training to their practice. Our experience demonstrates that even with limited resources, it is possible to deliver high quality training to a large proportion of public health nurses practicing in urban, rural, and frontier populations; observe significant results in their comprehension of training material and, most importantly; see application of what they learned in the training to their health care practice.
Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. mprelip@ucla.edu
Michael
M
Prelip
Rachel
R
Flores
Janni
J
Kinsler
Audrey M
AM
Stevenson
Sara E
SE
Simonsen
Mienah
M
Sharif
D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003153:Community Health Services; D003479:Curriculum; D003697:Delphi Technique; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research / Q000379:methods; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D036301:Qualitative Research; D014589:Utah