Jean Durch, Director
711 N Bridge St Room 222
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
Phone: (715) 726-7900

Public Health Nursing is the practice of promoting and protecting the health of the population using knowledge from nursing, social and public health sciences.

- American Public Health Association, PHN Section, 1996

Public Health Nursing Practice:

  - Focuses on entire populations
  - Reflects community priorities and needs
  - Establishes caring relationships with the communities, families,
    individuals and systems that comprise the populations Public Health Nurses
    serve
  - Grounded in social justice, compassion, sensitivity to diversity, and respect for
    the worth of all people, especially the vulnerable
  - Encompasses mental, physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental
    aspects of health
  - Promotes health through strategies driven by epidemiological evidence
  - Collaborates with community resources to achieve those strategies, but can
    and will work alone if necessary
  - Derives its authority for independent action from the Nurse Practice Act

- Minnesota Department of Health
                    Center For Public Health Nursing Revised 2004

- Visits to promote health and prevent disease throughout the life span

- Care Coordination to connect individuals and families to needed services

- Communicable disease prevention and control

- Health education presentations

- Health Clinics

To name only a few.....

Contact the health department to request more information on public health nursing services or to request to be contacted by a public health nurse. Call 715-726-7900 or 1-800-400-3678 and ask for the Public Health Intake Nurse.