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Public health nurses may be the unsung heroes of the covid 19 pandemic working within communities to help prevent the spread of the disease through prevention education and screening. Public health nurses phns provide care for populations and communities as a whole recognizing that ones health is affected by many factors such as environment lifestyle and genetic makeup rather than focusing on acute health care phns work to help improve health and safety prevent illness and improve access to care. Where nurses lead valued for their resourcefulness and initiative nurses in the usphs commissioned corps serve on the front lines of public health providing care to underserved populations and developing innovations in health care. According to the american public health association public health nursing is defined as the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing social and public health sciences instead of being stationed in a hospital or clinic setting public health nurses reach out to patients in the community