The 2005 revision to the ANA Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing Practice established which as the competency framework?

• A. Core public health functions as the competency framework.
• B. Minnesota Department of Health's intervention wheel as the practice competencies.
• C. Standards for baccalaureate- and master's-prepared public health nurses.
• D. Quad Council principles as the primary framework for practice.

Answer: (C)

The essential point is that the 2005 revision of the ANA Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing Practice established the Standards for baccalaureate- and master’s-prepared public health nurses as the competency framework. These standards define what those levels of educated public health nurses are expected to know, do, and demonstrate in population-focused practice, guiding practice, evaluation, and professional development across settings. Other resources, like the Minnesota Intervention Wheel or Quad Council principles, are valuable tools or guiding ideas in public health nursing, but they were not designated as the formal competency framework in that revision.