| Description |
1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits (chiefly color) |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Unit I: Why nursing. Why nurses are involved with environmental health -- Environmental health and families/homes -- Environmental health in the school setting -- Environmental health nursing at the community level -- Faith community: an environmental partner -- Spotlight on nurses -- Desired environmental health competencies for registered nurses -- Unit II: Harmful environmental exposures and vulnerable populations. Harmful environmental exposures and vulnerable populations -- Vulnerable populations - anticipatory guidance -- Immigrants and refugees as a vulnerable population -- Unit III: Environmental health sciences. Ecology, ecosystems, and watersheds -- Introduction to toxicology -- Carcinogens -- Criteria air pollutants -- Chemicals of concern: flame retardants -- Health effects of heavy metals -- Environmental public health tracking -- Introduction to risk assessment in environmental health -- Unit IV: Practice settings. Nurse exposure in work -- Hazardous exposures in healthcare -- Pharmaceutical waste -- Green team -- Unit V: Sustainable communities. Introduction to Tox Town -- Green building -- Green cleaning in homes -- Transportation and health implications -- Brownfields and nursing implications -- Antibiotic use in agriculture: public and environmental health impact -- Environmental justice -- Unit VI: Climate change. Climate and health -- Unit vii: energy -- Introduction to the ANA energy resolution -- Unconventional natural gas development and nursing -- Unit VIII: Advocacy. Using nursing process to guide advocacy for environmental health -- Coalition building: a powerful political strategy -- Case study in environmental health advocacy -- Chemical policy reform - toxic chemicals in the environment: efforts to control and regulate -- Anatomy of a legislative meeting -- Unit IX: Research. Maria Amaya, PhD, RNC, WHNP-BC -- Adelita Cantu, PhD, RN -- Viki Chaudrue, EdD, MSN, RN -- Rosemary Chaudry, PhD, RN, MHA, MPH, PHCNS-BC -- Linda McCauley, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAAOHN -- Ruth McDermott-Levy, PhD, MPH, RN -- Barbara Polivka, PhD, RN -- Elizabeth C Schenk, PhD, MHI, RN -- Unit X: Conclusion. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, viewed February 5, 2018). |
| Subject |
Environmental health.
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Nursing.
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Environmental Health. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004782
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Nursing. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009729
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Environmental health. (OCoLC)fst00912999
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Nursing. (OCoLC)fst01041731
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Leffers, Jeanne, 1947- editor.
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Smith, Claudia M., editor.
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Huffling, Katie, editor.
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McDermott-Levy, Ruth, editor.
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Sattler, Barbara, DrPH., editor.
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Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, issuing body.
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