Anderson & McFarlane (2008) define Community Health Nursing as "the practice of nursing by professional nurses who have been educated in the process of population-based nursing and whose principal client is the aggregate community." Anderson, E. & McFarlane, J. (2008). Community as partner, 5th Edition. New York: Lippincott

                                                          "REMOTE AREA NURSE" was an excellent Australian Television Series (2003) which portrayed the professional and personal life of a Public Health Nurse assigned to a small indigenous islander community in the Bismarck Sea, north of Australia.

Randolph Rasch, PhD, APRN
First African-American man to be a Public Health Nurse in Michigan, as well as in North Carolina. Additionally, Dr. Rasch was the first African American man to earn a PhD in Nursing (University of Texas, 1988). He is presently director of Nurse Practitioner Programs, Vanderbilt University.























































































Example / screenshots  on Palm or PocketPC from SHOTS 2007, available free of charge, as noted at web site at right.

Community Health Links: EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING: Disseminating the Evidence Base in Public Health Nursing ( A Six-Module tutorial from the University of Illinois-Chicago) http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/projects/ebphn/modulesmain.html Module 2 of the Above-Referenced EBPHN Site is an excellent tutorial / flash presentation on how to search PubMed (Highly Recommended): http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/projects/ebphn/modules/module2/pubmed/pubmed.html EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE TUTORIAL FOR NURSES (PENN STSTE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY): http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction?ebpt-07/index.htm A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web (Medical Library Association)  http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION & DATA TUTORIAL ( A service provided by Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce) http://phpartners.org/tutorial/index.html THE STORY OF DAVID OLDS AND THE NURSE HOME VISITING PROGRAM: http://www.rwjf.org/files/publications/other/DavidOldsSpecialReport0606.pdf PATCH: Planned Approach to Community Health: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/PATCH/index.htm Southern Nevada Health District http://www.southernnevadahealthdistrict.org/index.html Maps to Eight Southern Nevada Health Centers: http://www.southernnevadahealthdistrict.org/locations_maps.htm Chronic Disease prevention, Southern Nevada: http://www.gethealthyclarkcounty.org Center for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/ Community Partners for Better Health: http://www.communitypartnersforbetterhealth.com/ Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS TRAINING SITE: http://nccphp.sph.unc.edu/training/training_list/ "Healthy People 2010" http://www.healthypeople.gov/ Data 2010: the Healthy People 2010 Database: http://wonder.cdc.gov/data2010/ Healthy People 2010 Nevada: http://167.154.2.40/nihds/publications/2002Healthy%20People%202010.pdf Rural  Healthy People 2010: http://centers.srph.tamhsc.edu/centers/rhp2010 Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce: http://phpartners.org/hp/ National Association of County and City Health Officials: http://www.naccho.org/ IMMUNIZATIONS: The Group on Immunization Education of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine: http://www.immunizationed.org/default.aspx SHOTS 2007: FREE!  PDA or Computer Download of 2007 Recommendations: http://immunizationed.org/AnyPage.aspx?PageName=ShotsHome Nevada Immunization Coalitions: http:www.immunizenevada.org/partners.php Vaccine and Immunization Information: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/ Immunization Action Coalition: http://www.immunize.org EPIDEMIOLOGY: Pandemic Influenza Storybook: Personal Recollections from Survivors, Family, and Friends http://www.pandemicflu.gov/storybook/index.html "Outbreak at Water's Edge." A Public Health Discovery Game: http:www.mclph.umn.edu/watersedge/ Community Health Survey (Example of a pretty good survey Report  from Ft. Collins, Colorado): http://www.healthdistrict.org/survey/2004CHS.pdf WWW Virtual Library: Epidemiology: http://www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/epidem/epidem.html World Health Organization (WHO)-Epidemiology: http://www.who.int/topics/epidemiology/en/ SUPERCOURSE: Epidemiology, The Internet and Global Health: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ Excellence in Curriculum Innovation Through Teaching Epidemiology and the Science of Public Health: http://cdc.gov/excite/classroom/outbreak/steps.htm Dark Winter Bioterrorism Exercise Script (2001): http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/events/2001_darkwinter/dark_winter.pdf The Influenza Pandemic of 1918: http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ ZOONOSES: The Global Wildlife Disease Map: http://wildlifedisease.nbii.gov ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Scorecard: The Pollution Information Site (Look up Enviromental Issues in Your Hoime Town, or Elsewhere http://www.scorecard.org ******************************************************************************** SOME AREA SERVICES...... ******************************************************************************** RESOURCES FOR HOMELESSNESS, ALCOHOL & SUBSTANCE ABUSE (COMPILED BY UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA NURSING CLASS OF 2007 STUDENTS: Luke Luu, Katelynn Nguyen, Bill Nguyen, Yvonne Nti, and Ian Ogawa): Medical / Other Services: ******Health Care for the Homeless Program:********* Las Vegas Outreach Clinic 47 Owens Ave Las Vegas, NV 89030 Telephone: 702.307.4635 Downtown Outreach Clinic 403 W. Wilson Las Vegas, NV 89106 Telephone: 702.380.8511 ***********Detoxification / Rehabilitation:************** West Care Community Triage Center Adult Detox and Mental Health Triage 930 N. 4th St. Las Vegas, NV 89101 Telephone: 702.383.4044 Salvation Army 211 Judson St. Las Vegas, NV 89030 Telephone: 702.399.2769 Las Vegas Rescue Mission 480 W. Bonanza Las Vegas, NV 89016 Telephone:  702.382.1766 (Men) Telephone: 702.382.0467 Las Vegas Recovery Center

3371 North Buffalo Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89129
Telephone:  702.515.1373


*********COUNSELING / MENTAL HEALTH:**********

Community Counseling Center
2860 E. Flamingo Road, Suite 207
Las Vegas, NV 89104
Telephone: 702.369.8700

Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services
1650 Community College Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89046
Telephone: 702.486.0719
(open 7 days per week, 7 am to 7 pm. No appointments made over the phone)

Bridge Counseling
1701 West Charleston Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89102
Telephone: 702.474.6450
(Monday through Friday 9 am to 8 pm; Saturday 8 am to 3 pm)

Associated Bilingual Counselors
730 N. Eastern Avenue, Suite 130
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Telephone: 702.598.2020

Recovery (Group Counseling):

1253 Arville 
Las Vegas, NV 89101
(@ Amland Development Company)
Monday & Thursday 7 pm

6500 W. Flamingo Rd
Las Vegas, NV 89101
(@Good Samaritan Lutheran Church)
Thursday 1 pm

4320 Channel 10 Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89101
(@St. Viator Community Center)
Saturday 1 pm

******************HOUSING:***********************

Female Recovery House(s):

Hope House
2500 Apricot Lane
Las Vegas, NV 89108
Telephone: 702.648.7197
Contact: Melba
(Food provided; CCSS voucher accepted--$110/week charge)

Fawn Residence
6016 Fawn Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89107
Telephone:  702.353.7279
Contact: Linda
(Provide own food, consider CCSS)

The Shade Tree
Sheltering Women, Children, & Their Pets
I West Owens
North Las Vegas, NV 89030
Telephone: 702-385-0072
Contact: Marlene Richter, Executive Director

Silkworth House
2007 Peyton Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89104
Telephone: 702.678.6496
($130 / week, food included)


Male Recovery House(s):

Samaritan House
1001 4th Street
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Telephone: 702.382.8437
Contact: Garland or Mike
($95 / week, CCSS voucher accepted)

Our House
22nd St.
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Telephone:  702.354.0440
($135/week; CCSS voucher accepted; food included; required meetings)

Guest House:
2621 Brady St.
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Telephone: 702.657.0856