Innovative Resources for Community/Public Health Nursing Education

Online Resources for Teaching Public Health Nursing

Databases and Compilations

Author Description Website Association of Community Innovative Teaching Strategies for PHNs are posted on the ACHNE website in the http://www.resourcenter.net/Scripts/4Disapi8. Health Nursing Educators members-only section. Strategies range from case studies to the use of technology in dll/4DCGI/members/index.html (ACHNE) Members the classroom to innovative assignments ranging from papers to service learning activities. ACHNE members are invited to submit teaching strategies for consideration that reflect topic areas representative of public health nursing.

National Public Health Training Online searchable database for PHTC developed trainings and train-the-trainer tools. http://www.asph.org/phtc/search.cfm Centers (PHTC) Network Fourteen centers have each developed a variety of public health trainings. Funded by Distance Education Center HRSA.

TRAIN (TrainingFinder Real- Online searchable database for public health training and distance courses. TRAIN https://www.train.org time Affiliate Integrated is a project of the Public Health Foundation with a grant from The Robert Wood Network) Johnson Foundation and funding from participating states and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Partners in Information Access A collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health http://phpartners.org/index.html for the Public Health Workforce sciences libraries. Provides links to educational events and resources, including opportunities for distance learning. FEMA Emergency Management The Emergency Management Institute (EMI) offers self-paced courses designed for http://training.fema.gov/IS/NIMS.asp Institute people who have emergency management responsibilities and the general public.  National Incident Students will obtain a certificate of Management System These online courses on the National Incident Management System (NIMS) are ideal completion which may be submitted to the for undergraduate students: faculty. Directions for students to submit IS-100.a - Introduction to the Incident Command System certificate: IS-100.HC - Introduction to the Incident Command System for Healthcare/Hospitals http://training.fema.gov/IS/docs/Saving IS-200.HC - Applying ICS to Healthcare Organizations %20Your%20Cert.pdf IS-700.A - National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction

National Center for Case Study A collection of case studies in numerous disciplines related to science including Website: Teaching in Science. State health and medicine. One case study “ The 1st New Disease of the 21st Century by http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases University of New York at Otto Sanchez, University of Ontario , Institute of Technology , uses a PowerPoint- /ubcase.htm#medicine Buffalo combined with role-playing to present the epidemiology of Severe Acute Respiratory The instructor must register prior to accessing Syndrome (SARS). any of the case studies at the following site: http://www.sciencecases.org/register.asp

ACHNE Post Conference Session June 12, 2010 1 Topic/Title Author Description Website Orientation to Public NY NJ Public Health Interactive tutorial provides an overview of public health and the http://www.nynj- Health Training Center ten essential services. Interaction includes e-mails to read, tasks to phtc.org/orientation/home/oph-login.cfm do, and even some simulated computer-based videoconferences to watch. Allow 30-45 minutes. Certificate of completion awarded and may be submitted to instructor.

Public Health Nursing Pacific Public Health This course provides an overview of the most important issues and http://pphtc.org/training/training.htm Orientation Training Training Center topics related to public health nursing. Presented in four modules.

Evidence-Based PHN University of Illinois at Tutorial includes six modules on EBP, PubMed, EBP resources, http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/projects/ebphn/ Chicago critical appraisal of literature and strategies for staying current. A certificate and 3.6 hours of CE are awarded. Participants are required to spend at least 30 minutes on each module in order to receive certificate.

Disaster Preparedness University of Minnesota This website from the University of Minnesota includes links to http://cpheo.sph.umn.edu/cpheo/umncphp/onli School of Public Health, many modules that are helpful in disaster readiness. They include, ne/home.html Center for Public Health food supply contamination training, mass fatalities training, Preparedness decontamination training, mental health considerations in disasters and special populations considerations in disasters, among many others. The site is well organized and provides different resources for further emergency training education.

Disaster in Franklin County: A Public Health Simulation provides Disaster in Franklin County: A Public Health an overview of the disaster preparedness and roles of public health Simulation officials during each stage of a disaster. Uses sound effects, http://www.sph.umn.edu/ce/trainings/coursepa graphics, and organizational charts. ge.asp?activityId=7594&stype=2

Public Health Updates Centers for Disease This website provides archived and current satellite webcasts, http://www2.cdc.gov/phtn/ Control and Prevention podcasts, as well as print-based self-instructional presentation s on Public Health Training a comprehensive list of public health topics including population- Network focused health, communicable disease, public health grand rounds to name a few. Sponsored by the CDC and other public health partners, these presentations are offered at no charge. A calendar of archived and upcoming broadcasts is available.

Preparedness Training North Carolina Center of This website offers public health preparedness topics such as http://nccphp.sph.unc.edu/training/index.php Series Public Health disease surveillance, basic epidemiology, bioterrorism and Preparedness new/emerging disease agents.

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