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Published on: 6/26/2007
Last Visited: 8/23/2008
Sharen Clugston,MSN RNc, Director of Nursing Hamilton Township, presented the specific strategies and steps that were implemented in a local government setting to raise nursing salaries, included as a major strategy was the need to articulate and clearly describe to officials in concrete terms what public health nurses do to prevent disease and promote health; Joy Spellman, MSN, RN described the path taken from a Director of Nursing position in a county health department to a newly created CDC/State funded position teaching and demonstrating the use of manikin simulators for practice and demonstration of various symptoms caused by all hazard insults.