Leveling the core competencies of public health nursing to evaluate senior baccalaureate nursing students.

Objectives: This study assessed a revised instrument based on the tier one Core Competencies for Public Health Nurses. Following instrument revision, the self-reported competence of prelicensure baccalaureate nursing students was examined.

Design And Sample: In this descriptive study, 102 senior, prelicensure baccalaureate nursing students completed a revised Core Competencies instrument prior to and immediately following completion of public health nursing courses.

Baccalaureate nursing students' intention to choose a public health career.

Objective(s): To determine nursing students' public health career intentions, and to determine recruitment strategies and other factors that influence students' public health career intentions.

Design And Sample: Descriptive, correlational design. 354 junior and senior baccalaureate nursing students.

Effectiveness of cultural immersion and culture classes for enhancing nursing students' transcultural self-efficacy.

With diversity increasing in the United States, educators are struggling to find the most effective methods to prepare nursing students to care for diverse populations. This study's purpose was to determine the impact of immersion experiences and cultural classes on nursing students' transcultural competence. A pretest-posttest, quasi-experimental design was used.