Quad Council Coalition community/public health nursing competencies: Building consensus through collaboration

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<p class="first" id="d12822820e99">The changing professional environment for community/public health nursing practice necessitates competencies grounded in current evidence-based practice. The Quad Council Coalition (QCC) appointed a Task Force to revise the 2011 QCC Competencies for Public Health Nursing. The goal of the competencies is to guide professional nursing practice, curricula, research, and policy development. This paper describes the process used to develop the revised 2018 Competencies. </p>

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