A Comparative Approach With Some Country Examples: How Can The Nursing Education Standarts Be Provided In Turkey
Abstract
In recent years a lot of nurses have claimed to
work in practitioner roles whose scope is increasingly enlarged, which are
specialized or in roles which require advanced level practice. Advanced
practice nurses (APN) are identified as “nurses
who can do all clinical applications and nursing practices autonomously except
making diagnostic and therapeutic decisions and nurses who use the nursing
roles which require high level of knowledge and skills for this”. The roles
of advanced practice nurses include competences such as: education, case
management, clinical application, consultancy, social aid, research and
administration. It is expected from the advanced public health nurses to form a
basis for the planning of community/public health programmes and their
evaluation; to learn the concepts related to community and public health such
as project building, health development, interventions on a people-to-people
level, healthcare systems, leadership and health policies; to provide the
handling of health inequalities in defenceless groups, and the consultancy for
different population characteristics, application areas and different
cultures. Advanced public health nursing
is able to conduct its practices through public health units, schools and
universities, home care units, primary healthcare services, refugee/immigrant
clinics, religious-based programmes, prisons and penitentiaries, outpatient
clinic services, rural health units, various sections of society, public or
private institutions/corporations and voluntary agencies. Despite the fact that
public health nursing is not in its well-deserved place in our country, it has
accomplished very important advancements in a great many of countries of the
World. When public health nursing is perceived as an area of expertise in our
country and when the models that are going to be taken as an example from
countries which are known to have accomplished great successes in public health
nursing are started to be applied,then they will contribute to the development
of nursing profession and the elevation of community health
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Review
Authors
Funda Özpulat
SELÇUK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, AKŞEHİR KADİR YALLAGÖZ SAĞLIK YÜKSEKOKULU
Türkiye
Publication Date
March 13, 2017
Submission Date
March 13, 2017
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2017