Welcome to ANDSOOHA's website!
Our MissionANDSOOHA's mission is to promote excellence in public health nursing administration and practice and provide a united voice for public health nursing managers in Ontario. Our active members are Public Health Nurses employed at the management level, in every region of the province.
See ANDSOOHA's Strategic Plan 2008-2010 under Member Resources
You can also find Orientation: Transition to Public Health Nursing (Dec. 2008) - under Member Resources. This resource was designed by public health nurses, public health nurse managers, and educators to inform you about the foundations of public health nursing practice, public health nursing in Ontario, and the knowledge and skills required in public health nursing.
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Article re: Developing an Orientation Toolkit -
4th National Community Health Nurse Conference -- June 16-18, 2010 in Toronto - Knowledge to Action: Engage, Enable, Inspire. The 4th National Community Health Nurses of Canada conference: June 16-18, 2010 at the Sheraton Centre, Toronto. This conference brings together nurses interested in Community Health Nursing from practice, research, administration, policy and education to provide a forum to explore issues of mutual concern as well as exchange knowledge, share evidence and ideas and generate solutions. It's never been so important to incorporate knowledge to action, by engaging nurses with others in knowledge exchange, enabling evidence informed practice, and inspiring excellence.
Public Health Nursing Discipline Specific Competencies Version 1.0 (May 2009) - The discipline specific competencies for public health nurses in Canada was released at the CHNAC June 2009 conference. Public Health Nursing Competencies are the integrated knowledge, skills, judgement and attributes required of a public health nurse to practice safely and ethically. Attributes include, but are not limited to attitudes, values and beliefs (Canadian Nurses Association Code of Ethics, 2008).