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Patricia M. Schoon, MPH, RN, Department of Nursing, College of St. Catherine, 2004 Randolph, St. Paul, MN 55105, 651-690-6937, pmschoon@stkate.edu

Population-based public health nursing competency development is integrated into a capstone nursing leadership and management course offered in a baccalaureate nursing program with an integrated curriculum. Students enrolled in this course have already completed a community health clinical in a previous course. The Public Health Intervention Wheel developed by the Minnesota Department of Health and the Population-based Public Health Nursing Competencies developed by the Henry Street Consortium under a grant from the Minnesota Department of Health provide the scope of practice context. An advocacy-based nursing leadership model provides the framework for nursing advocacy at the individual, systems, and community levels of nursing practice. Students develop beginning competency in political advocacy through participation in the Minnesota Nurses Association Day on the Hill. Students partner with community agencies and complete projects related to community health priorities. Topics studied and materials developed are meaningful, timely, and useful to both students and agencies. Students use an assets-based approach to complete a focused community assessment, an at-risk population group assessment, analyze data using the Healthy People 2010 Health Determinants Model, and develop an interdisciplinary population-based intervention plan involving all three levels of public health nursing practice. Students present a poster session open to the public: nurses attending receive one CEU. Materials developed are given to public health or community agencies, or schools. One-fourth of the students complete individual leadership-management practicums in public health/community agencies or schools. All students complete a self-audit of their population-based public health nursing competencies using a modified Henry Street Clinical Menu.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to

• Create meaningful student-centered learning activities that are a synthesis of entry-level population-based public health nursing competency development and entry-level nursing leadership and management competency development.
• Utilize concepts of advocacy-based nursing leadership in the development and implementation of learning activities that facilitate population-based nursing leadership skill development in student nurses.
• Utilize an assets-based approach in planning, developing, and sharing population-based public health nursing student learning activities with population groups, communities of interest, and community agencies.

Keywords: Education, Public Health Nursing

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: Baccalaureate Program in Nursing College of St. Catherine
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

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