Tears for the City: The Biblical Basis for Population-Focused Nursing.
Most nurses can describe a memorable patient, one who moved them deeply, and one who made them remember why they chose nursing as a calling. Thinking of a population with an emotional connection is usually more difficult. Current nursing practice includes the ability to serve a population or community as client. This article describes core functions of public health-assessment, policy development, and assurance, while offering biblical resources the Christian nurse has to consider a population with the same compassion as one does an individual.
Ruby Dunlap, EdD, MSN, APRNBC, has taught community health nursing at Belmont University School of Nursing, Nashville, Tennessee, since 1996, guiding students in work with global refugees. She grew up in Somalia and has lectured at Uganda Christian University, Mukono, Uganda.
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