A country's efforts toward creating an advanced practice nurse in public health.

Aim: The study goal was to inform the creation of a blueprint for an advanced practice nurse (APN) in public health.

Background: No internationally accepted standard for an APN in public health exists. Activities of public health nurses (PHN) traditionally have centered on health promotion and disease prevention, but many have added other population-based activities such as chronic and acute disease treatment.

Public Health Nurses in Israel: A Case Study on a Quality Improvement Project of Nurse's Work Life.

Public health nurses (PHNs) working in Well Baby Clinic in Israel's Haifa district were voicing great distress to inspectors-the impossibility of meeting their workload, feeling overwhelmed, poor physical, and technological conditions. They were feeling tired and frustrated and burn-out was rising. The district's nursing management took the decision, together with Tel Aviv University's nursing research unit, to conduct a quality improvement project based on issues that arose from meetings with focus groups on the nurses' difficulties.