A Job Task Analysis is a method of determining the essential functions of a set of jobs or a profession. It is the most common way certification bodies determine the content that is tested on their certification exam.

Yes!  Please share this message with as many public health organizations and colleagues as possible. The NBPHE is looking for responses from as many public health nurses as possible, working in all employment settings such as private sector, non-profits, clinical public health and foundations, for example.

If you are currently working as a public health nurse, yes, we invite you to respond. Please share the opportunity to respond with your colleagues.

As long as you have experience working in public health nursing, yes, the NBPHE welcomes your responses. 

Approximately 20-25 minutes altogether. The entire survey set is 44 questions followed by profile questions where you can submit some professional information about yourself. 

Yes. We will not ask for your name. Your email address, if you choose to share it, will allow us to share the results of the study with you and cannot be tied to your responses. We will analyze responses in the aggregate and will not share or look at your individual response set.

Members of a public health nursing job task analysis committee were carefully selected to represent a mix of nurses at a supervisor level from non-profits, private section employers, and health departments. In December 2024, they participated in a two-day workshop with measurement specialists who led them through a training process and assisted them in developing a set of tasks that represent the most common tasks performed in public health nursing. 

The survey submission deadline has been extended to May 31, 2025. The job task analysis committee will review the responses and consider which tasks did not have adequate responses to be included in the final data set. They will also review all open comments submitted through the survey. Following this, the NBPHE will analyze the remaining data set and publish a draft report on the common functions in public health nursing on a region-by-region basis across the globe. NBPHE will also perform a factor analysis on a subset of responses which will be the basis for the development of a content outline for a public health nursing certification  exam. An analysis of the responses as well as an anonymized copy of the full data set will be made available to partner organizations/institutions which they can use for their own analysis.