ROWPH Realities
This nursing discipline integrates knowledge from public health, social and environmental sciences, and research to promote health equity and improve population health
What is Public Health Nursing?
All sexually transmitted infections (STIs) cause noticeable symptoms
What is a myth?
This vaccine is routinely offered to adolescents to protect against certain virus strains linked to cancers and genital warts.
What is HPV Vaccine/Gardasil?
How many Public Health Nurses were past students
What is Five? (Sabrina, Jackie, Kelly, Phuc-Nhi, and Tonya)
This committee supports nursing documentation, practice reflection, and professional practice initiatives like nursing documentation audits, and events.
What is Nursing Practice Committee?
Breastfeeding is contraindicated for mothers with active tuberculosis.
What is a truth?
This term refers to the process of identifying, assessing, and managing health risks in a population
What is Health Survelliance?
Before pursuing nursing, Phuc-Nhi worked as a Planner (now Health Promotion Research Analyst) at ROWPH
What is true?
This ROWPH role provides advice and recommendations on nursing within the department, and is a member of the PH Department Leadership Team otherwise known as DLT.
What is the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)?
Public Health Nurses can communicate diagnoses and prescribe medications in Ontario
What is a myth?
The integrated knowledge, skills, judgement, and attributes required of a public health nurse to practice safely and ethically
What are the Public Health Nursing competencies?
Kelly is an avid reader and has many posts on Goodreads.
What is true?