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.
1 THE DEFINITION AND PRACTICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING. 2 A Statement of the APHA Public Health Nursing Section. 3 2013. 4 This document reaffirms the 1996 American Public Health Association Public Health Nursing Section. 5 definition statement,1 and puts it in the context of current public health nursing practice. 6. 7 Definition. 8 Public health nursing is the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using. 9 knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences. 10. 11 The public health nurse (PHN) assesses, anticipates, considers, and responds to factors in the health. 12 system environment including emerging health trends, health and economic policies, and social and. 13 environmental justice issues.