TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Foreword A1 - Schoon, Patricia M. A1 - Porta, Carolyn M. A1 - Schaffer, Marjorie A. Y1 - 2019 N1 - T2 - Population-Based Public Health Clinical Manual: The Henry Street Model for Nurses, 3e AB - More than a decade ago, I was pleased to lead a group of public health nurses in Wisconsin in designing a project that aimed to connect nurse educators and practitioners to improve public health nursing practice and education in our state. For inspiration and best practices, we needed to journey no farther than our neighboring state of Minnesota. We purposefully took a “follow-the-leader” approach in adopting or adapting many collaborative education and practice improvement strategies pioneered in Minnesota for our Linking Education and Practice for Excellence in Public Health Nursing (LEAP Project). Throughout the 6 years of the LEAP Project, we often looked to public health nursing leaders in Minnesota for guidance because they clearly understood the processes and challenges of academic-practice collaboration and of contemporary public health nursing practice and education. I clearly recall the “Minnesota-nice” generosity of the outstanding faculty and public health nurse members of the Henry Street Consortium in sharing their wisdom on academic-practice collaboration when we consulted with them during a groundbreaking international public health nursing conference held in St. Paul in 2011. In many ways, the Henry Street Consortium epitomizes the best of the best practices for academic-practice partnership and sustainable efforts toward improving public health education and practice. SN - PB - Sigma Theta Tau International CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/13 UR - apn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1189287590 ER -