Resources

• Locate and get to know your elected officials from local to Senate and Congressional seats: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
• APHA Funding fact sheet for the CDC and HRSA 
• NLN Web-Based resources for public policy advocacy

• Letter to Dr. Walensky, CDC director
• Letter to Dr. Blumenthal, President of the Commonwealth Fund
• Letter of Support for Steven Dettelbach, ESQ, for ATF Director
• 2020 CPHNO Letter to Advocate for Public Health Nurses to Serve on the Coronavirus Task Force of the Biden-Harris Transition Team
• 2020 QCC/CPHNO – Open Letter to the Authors of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s Building Coalitions to Promote Health Equity: A Toolkit for Action
• 2014 QCC Public Health Nurses Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee Letter

• 2019 QCC – Report of Key Action Areas for Addressing Social Determinants of Health through a Public Health Nursing Lens
• 2018 QCC – Quad Council Competencies for Public Health Nurses
• 2014 QCC – Invitational Forum on the Role and Future of Nurses in Public Health: Final Report
• 2011 QCC – Quad Council Competencies for Public Health Nurses
• 1997 QCC – Tenets of Public Health Nursing

• 2016 APHN – The Public Health Nurse: Necessary Partner for the Future of Healthy Communities 
• 2015 RESOLVE – Community Chief Health Strategist
• 2015 APHN – The Public Health Nurse’s Role in Achieving Health Equity: Eliminating Inequalities in Health
• 2014 NACNEP – Public Health Nursing: Key to Our Nation’s Health
• 2014 Council on Linkages – Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
• 2014 APHN – The Role of Public Health Nurses in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
• 2013 MI Center of Excellence in PH Workforce Studies – Enumeration and Characterization of the PHN Workforce
• 2013 APHA PHN Section – The Definition and Practice of Public Health Nursing
• 2011 WSNA – Public Health and Public Health Nursing
• 2008 ASTDN – Report on a Public Health Nurse to Population Ratio

• CPHNO Position Statement on PHN competencies 
• ANA Public Health Nursing : Scope and Standards of Practice – 3rd edition
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• National Association of County and City Health Officers (NACCHO)
• Public Health Foundation
• Video: Public Health Nurses the First Line of Prevention
• CPHNO Panel Discussion at the International Rural Health Conference (August 2021)

We are aware of the following PHN Residency programs – please send additional programs that may be missing from this list: 

University of Tennessee College of Nursing & Shelby County Health Department PHN Residency Program

Colorado-based Nurse-Family Partnership Nurse Residency Program

Minnesota Department of Health PHN Residency Program

University of Wisconsin-Madison New 2 Public Health (N2PH) Multidisciplinary Residency Program

Writing Editorials – You Can Do This! A two-part workshop series by Dr. Pat Kelly, Editor of Public Health Nursing, the official journal of CPHNO
View Part 1 recording
View Part 1 PowerPoint slides

Strategic Plan Grid