Advancing Population-Based Health-Promotion and Prevention Practice in Community-Health Nursing

In Brief Community-health nursing practice is a pivotal aspect of present-day health reforms. In Quebec, Canada, the recent introduction of a population-based approach has entailed increasing the resources allocated to health promotion and disease prevention. Semistructured interviews were conducted with nurses and managers (N = 69) in an effort to understand how these new resources are reflected in nursing practice. Three classes of factors emerged as key conditions for change: contextual and historical, training and professional-development, and work-organization factors. The authors propose courses of action respecting these conditions to provide support for community-health nursing practices that incorporate a contemporary population-based approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nurses and managers (N = 69) in an effort to understand how the new resources allocated to health promotion and disease prevention in Quebec, Canada, are reflected in nursing practice. Three classes of factors emerged as key conditions for change: contextual and historical, training and professional-development, and work-organization factors. www.advancesinnursingscience.com