Professional Nursing Advisor: An innovative approach to professional development.

Background: Professional development is an expectation for nurses and is part of lifelong learning. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing's Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education identify professional development as a core competency for nursing students.

Problem: At an urban pre-licensure nursing program, most students reported meeting with their academic advisor once a year or less and did not receive professional development opportunities from their advisor.

Turning Concern Into Confidence: Planetary Health Needs in Nursing Education.

Background: Climate change is a recognized global threat to human health, and nurses must be prepared to mitigate its negative effects. This article describes nursing student and faculty opinions about climate change and associated planetary health curricular needs.

Method: A survey including the Six Americas Super Short Survey and an adaptation of the Planetary Health Report Card was developed and emailed to nursing students and faculty.

Distribution of fresh foods in food pantries: challenges and opportunities in Illinois during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The charitable food system distributes free food to clients across the U.S., but many nutrition and health-focused efforts encounter barriers to success, which were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Development and Validation of an Operational Model for Nursing Academic-Practice Partnerships.

Background: Several definitions and guiding principles for nursing academic-practice partnerships exist.

Problem: There remains a gap between academic-practice partnership definitions and practical operational models, thereby limiting schools of nursing ability to engage in productive partnerships. This article describes the development and validation of a novel Operational Model for Nursing Academic-Practice Partnerships.

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Academic-Practice Partnerships: Implications for Nursing Education.

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected academic-practice partnerships in multiple ways. This article examines how the pandemic affected partnerships at one college of nursing.

Method: A survey on the effects of COVID-19 on academic-practice partnerships was sent to all faculty ( = 228).

A School Wellness Partnership to Address Childhood Obesity.

Background: Childhood obesity is a complex public health issue that requires community and environmental factors be addressed. Efforts to combat childhood obesity must be multifaceted and include community-based partnerships.

Objectives: The objective of this paper is to describe a partnership between a county health department and a local school district to address childhood obesity.

Impact of COVID-19 on public health nursing student learning outcomes.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of a strong, effective public health nursing workforce while also requiring public health nursing faculty to adapt teaching strategies as courses transitioned online. It is essential to understand how the pandemic-enforced transition from face-to-face to remote learning impacts student outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to compare student learning outcomes in a pre-licensure public health nursing course before, during, and after the transition to remote learning.

From the Classroom to the Virtual World: Faculty Response to COVID-19.

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic forced nursing educators to switch face-to-face courses to virtual learning. This article describes how faculty transitioned a face-to-face public health nursing course to remote learning and examines student response to this transition.

Method: Data were collected via a 12-question REDCap survey.

Public Health Nursing and Community Health Worker Teams: A Community-Based Preventive Services Clinic Exemplar.

Since 2009, a community-based, collaborative exemplar in Richmond, Virginia, involving 8 satellite clinics of the state health department, has been implemented within public housing units to focus on prevention and access to care. These satellite centers, known a resource center (RCs), are staffed by public health nurses, community health workers, and nurse practitioners working in complementary roles. The RCs have provided education to 2609 clients on family planning, safe sex practices, safe car seat use, and screening for sexually transmitted infections and have made 9591 patient referrals to health, social, and community services.

Faculty perspectives on transitioning public health nursing clinical to virtual in response to COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for public health nursing as an integral part of a strong public health workforce. However, it has also created challenges in preparing future nurses as much of nursing instruction, including clinical experiences, needed to urgently transition learning to a virtual environment. This paper describes the process faculty experienced during spring 2020 to quickly transition public health nursing clinicals from in-person to virtual learning in response to COVID-19.

A scholarly concentration program to promote public health nursing for generalist Clinical Nurse Leader students.

Background: The number of public health nurses has decreased consistently and significantly since the 1920's. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the need for more public health nurses in the workforce. The number of novice nurses entering into public health roles is declining, demonstrating a clear need to mentor pre-licensure nursing students into the public health nursing workforce.

Engaging the School Community in a Nutrition and Physical Activity Program: The Role of the 21st-Century School Nurse.

Childhood obesity is an important public health issue that can affect child health and academic outcomes. Schools are essential in promoting healthy childhood behaviors through the implementation of programs that reach the whole school community. School nurses can play a key role in designing, implementing, and evaluating feasible strategies, including school-based nutrition and physical activity messaging programs, that meet school-specific needs.