This year's theme is "Celebrating Public Health Nursing: Thriving in a Changing Environment."  Conference activities will provide public health nurses with information, skills, and resources to move the public health nursing profession into the 21st Century. The conference will also provide time for attendees to learn about and share information on critical public health issues. 

Purpose: 
To strengthen the population health service delivery skills of the public health nursing workforce.

Objectives:

• Recognize innovative strategies to prevent disease and promote health.
• Identify two competencies necessary to strengthening population based public health nursing practice within the community. 
• Describe two practice examples that demonstrate the use of public health interventions in successfully meeting local community health priorities. 
• Identify two individual strategies to successfully negotiate changes in your public health nursing practice.
•  Identify 3 ways to incorporate quality improvement strategies into daily public health nursing activities.