Development of a Position Paper on Faculty Qualifications for Community and Public Health Nursing

This brief report describes the work of the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators (ACHNE) to update the Position Paper Faculty Qualifications for Community/Public Health Nursing (C/PHN) and recommend qualifications for C/PHN faculty and clinical preceptors in undergraduate and graduate programs. Work group members conducted a literature review and a survey of public health faculty, practicing public health nurses, and other nurse educators in 2023. The revised position paper highlights the need for faculty who are academically and experientially prepared to teach community, public, and population health nursing courses. It stresses the importance of well-qualified instructors in both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing added Population Health as a new domain to The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education. In an effort to meet the new domains it is essential to consider faculty that have the academic and experiential qualifications to be hired or selected to teach C/PHN courses in nursing programs.