Public Health Nurse Profile Project - What is it?

Today, there is a critically deficient supply of public health nurses (PHNs) due to a variety of social, economic, and political influences drastically affecting the status of today’s public health nursing workforce, populations and communities nation-wide and in Wisconsin.  

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Why Public Health Nurse Profiles?

A profile of each PHN tells a story about who a public health nurse is and what they do. Student nurses, the public, and others will identify the PHN as a health care professional and someone they trust and respect who works to improve the health of their community. 

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Jennifer Lenbom, BSN, RN

Jennifer Lenbom, BSN, RN

Starting as a new graduate in a professional public health nursing career is realistic and possible!” said Jennifer Lenbom, BSN, RN, Chippewa County Department of Public Health and Home Care. Jennifer was a May 2006 graduate from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, College of Nursing and Health Sciences who immediately began her professional career as a public health nurse.  

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Sara Mackiewicz, RN, BSN

Sara Mackiewicz, RN, BSN

Sara Mackiewicz is a public health nurse with Ashland County Health & Human Services and Bayfield County Health Department. Sara said she was called to a specialty of Public Health Nursing while working as a massage practitioner because she saw a lot of clients with chronic health issues who couldn’t afford health care and she wanted to help these individuals on a larger scale. 

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Susan Moch, PhD, RN

Susan Moch, PhD, RN

Susan D. Moch, PhD, RN, teaches health promotion to the undergraduate level, teaches evidence-based practice and clinical for the Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) graduate students. She also works in health promotion practice at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

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Kim Neuschel, BSN, RN

Kim Neuschel, BSN, RN

Kim Neuschel is a public health nurse with Public Health Madison and Dane County. She received her BSN with Honors from UW-Madison in 2001. Before nursing school, Kim envisioned a career in international health believing that was where the “real” health needs were. 

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Cheryl Robinson, MSN, RN

Cheryl Robinson, MSN, RN

Cheryl Robinson, MSN, RN works at Public Health-Madison and Dane County (PHMDC) as a public health supervisor. She is also the 2011 Wisconsin Public Health Association (WPHA), Public Health Nurse (PHN) Section Chair. 

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Margaret O. Schmelzer RN, MS

Margaret O. Schmelzer RN, MS

Margaret Schmelzer is the Public Health Nurse Director and State Health Plan Director in the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor with the University of Wisconsin – School of Nursing, State Liaison to Healthy People 2020, and Chair of the Practice and Quality Council for the Wisconsin Nurses Association.  

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Judy Sengstock, BSN, RN

Judy Sengstock, BSN, RN

Judy Sengstock identified public health nursing as a perfect fit for her as a second career after having spent 19 years in food and nutrition management. While caring for her ailing mother, she witnessed how rewarding nursing can be and enrolled in nursing school.

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Amy Wergin, RN

Amy Wergin, RN

Amy Wergin, the 2012 recipient of the Excellence in Public Health Nursing Florence Nightingale Award, has been working for the Manitowoc County Health Department for the past 25 years. Her role at the health department is to work as the Public Health Nurse Manager, which includes working with the staff of nine public health registered nurses and one community health LPN.

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