Public Health Nursing Practice, Research, and Education Program (PHN-PREP)

Our vision: Working together with public health partners to advance public health nurses’ knowledge, skills, and agency to deliver services to pregnant individuals and families with young children enrolled in home visitation programs.

PHN-PREP develops, evaluates, and mobilizes evidence-informed resources to support public health nurses, supervisors, and home visiting program teams provide care and support individuals and families enrolled in home visitation programs. Our work is grounded in public health nursing practice to identify and respond to professional and program needs. All of our projects consist of purposeful collaborations between the PHN-PREP leadership team and policy, practice, education, and research partners, including the PHN-PREP advisory board and trainees.

The goals of PHN-PREP are to:

1. Conduct research and quality improvement projects to evaluate home visitation programs.
2. Document the tacit (or experiential) knowledge used by public health nurses to provide care and services to individuals and families enrolled in home visitation programs.
3. Accelerate the development, mobilization, and uptake of evidence- and practice-informed resources into public health nursing education, practice, and supervision.
4. Advance the role of public health nurses as leaders in providing culturally safe, trauma-and-violence-informed care to individuals and families within their communities.
5. Build capacity among the next generation of public health researchers.