Office of Nursing

Accomplishments and Challenges
2003-2008

Introduction

The mission of the Office of Nursing is to provide leadership, guidance, technical assistance and tools to assure that the practice of public health nursing in Georgia is:

  • evidence- and competency-based;
  • consistent with the Georgia nurse practice acts, rules and regulations and scope of practice; and
  • focused on improving the health and safety of Georgians.

The Office of Nursing provides leadership, guidance, technical assistance and tools that are used by Georgia public health nurses (PHNs) who work in all of the public health programs and work in population health, personal and preventive health, emergency preparedness and/or leadership/workforce advocacy. The Office of Nursing has received national recognition for the development of the models in the box below. For additional accomplishments, see the following pages.

  • Population health training for PHNs
  • Model nurse protocols
  • Bio-Chem protocols
  • GA Nurse Alert System (GNAS)
  • Model MOU with American Red Cross
  • QA/QI system
  • First published history of PHN in GA
  • Workforce development analysis and strategies
  • First PHN appointed to Board of Nursing

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