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I have been an RN for 2 years working in critical care and am kind of looking for a change. I am interested in health promotion and wellness work, maybe at a fitness center or local college or something. Does anybody have any suggestions about how I can research more in this field?

Lindsey

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Hi. I'm a BSN student in a community health clinical, and I am helping to design a community assessment and intervention project. I live in the greater Cincinnati area, so I have access to urban, suburban, and rural communities. I would be interested in any thoughts on this issue. Thanks!

Sarah

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Surf the networks at primetime. Bet you won’t find many—if any—dramas about public health professionals, implementing health programs at the grassroots level.

But the job has big payoffs, according to Julia Muennich Cowell, PhD, RNC, FAAN, and Professor and Chair of Mental Health Nursing at Rush University in Chicago, IL.

To recognize the pluck and passion of public health nurses, the VNA Foundation developed the Super Star [...]

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Part one of a two-part exclusive interview with Sally Lemke, winner of the 2007 Super Star in Community Nursing award.

It’s a conundrum: How could the recipient of the VNA Foundation’s “SuperStar in Community Nursing Award”—a $25,000 prize—get the axe a mere few days later?

Sally Lemke, who was a nurse practitioner in Chicago’s Cook County healthcare system, became a local celebrity when this unthinkable scenario played [...]