NC Public Health Nursing Careers

Public Health Nursing Careers

Welcome to the Public Health Nursing Career site

This site has been established to provide resources and tools for the experienced PHN to use when recruiting
new nurses to public health. It can also be a site to refer nurses potentially interested in the specialty field of public health
nursing to learn more about the profession. The content of this site is available for downloading and printing.
We hope you enjoy using this site and find it valuable.

For comments or suggestions regarding the content of this site, please contact: info@ncpublichealthnursing.org

Public Health Nursing Offers Opportunities to:

Enjoy a rewarding and professionally satisfying nursing career
Practice in a setting that is diverse and challenging
Work independently as well as through team efforts and collaboration
Focus on disease prevention and the promotion of health and safety of individuals, families, groups, and communities
Empower communities to determine their own strengths, needs, and solutions
Use education as a key component for positive change
Use problem-solving skills and develop leadership potential
Assure access to affordable health services for all people
Collect and analyze health related data
Conduct community assessments
Prepare and analyze budgets
Participate in epidemiological investigations
Eliminate health disparities
Shape health policy