The term is derived from the primarily nocturnal habits of the owl. Usually, people who are night owls stay awake past midnight and extreme night owls may stay awake until just before or after dawn.
By Suzanne Ridgway. Lllian Wald was born into a comfortable Jewish family in 1867, but chose to work in the tenements of New York City. She coined the phrase âpublic health nursingâ and is considered to be the founder of that profession. Lillian was educated at a private boarding school.
The goal of the public health nurse is to combine public health core functions with nursing prac-tice to achieve health goals for a population. On the next page are some examples of TB casemanagement activities performed by the public health nurse within the framework of the corefunctions of public health.