ANHE

Welcome to educators and learners who would like to know how to best use the eTextbook and our resources to advance knowledge for nursing and environmental health!

Owner: Katie Huffling

Community members: 2

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The following is the Table of Contents for our eTextbook. For instructions on how to use the eTextbook click here. Each chapter and section below is hyperlinked and will take you directly there.

(We are in need of volunteers to write sections of the Virtual Text. Sections that are needed are noted below or if you think we are missing an important chapter/section, contact Katie Huffling)

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Table of Contents

I.   Why nurses are involved with environmental health

     a. Why nursing and environmental health

        i.   Examples of how environmental health is an integral part of nursing practice

             1. Worksite (Content needed)

             2. Home/family (Content needed)

             3. Schools (Content needed)

             4. Community (Content needed)

             5. Faith community (Content needed)

             6. Links to Luminary Project (Content needed)

     b. Principles of environmental health for nursing

     c. Conclusion

     d. References

II.   Environmental Health Scope and Standards and Competencies

III.  Vulnerable Populations

     a. Harmful Environmental Exposures and Vulnerable Populations

     b. Risk and vulnerability

     c. Embryonic and fetal development

     d. Infants

     e. Children

        i. Asthma in children (Content needed)

        ii. Pesticide exposure and children (Content needed)

        iii. Lead and heavy metal exposures (Content needed)

        iv. Anticipatory guidance by developmental stages (Content needed)

     f. Adolescents

        i. Cosmetic use

        ii. Work exposures

     f. Pregnant mother

     g. Adults

        i. Occupational exposures

        ii. Cancer risks  (Content needed)

     h. Older adults

     i. Persons with alternations in cognitive and physical abilities

     j. Global health

     i. Immigrant communities (Content needed)

     k. References

IV. Environmental Health Sciences

     a. Toxicology

     b. Biomonitoring

     c. Epidemiology

     d. Epigenetic

     e. Industrial hygiene

     f. Fate and transport

     g. Vector-borne diseases

     h. Measuring pollution

     i. Health tracking

     j. Mapping environmental health-Geographic information systems (GIS)

     k. Radiation (ionizing/non-ionizing)

     l. Food 

     m. Water (Content needed)

     n. Climate Change and Global Warming (Content needed)

     o. Risk (Content needed)

     p. Tools to assess risk (Content needed)

     q. Risk Management (Content needed)

     r. Incorporating environmental health risks into individual patient histories (Content needed)

     s. How science informs (or doesn’t) policy (Content needed)

     t. Resources (Content needed)

V. Advocacy

     a. Using nursing process to guide advocacy efforts

     b. Anatomy of a legislative meeting (including video)

     c. Case examples of EH nursing advocacy

     d. Interviews with "nurse advocates"

     e. Who's in charge of which policies

     f. How to build a coalition

     g. Media advocacy

     h. "Lobbying" strategies; building a campaign

      i. Reading list

VI. Working the Green Shift

     a. Introduction

     b. Nurses' exposures at work

     c. Hazardous exposures in healthcare

         i. Mercury

        ii. Plastics

       iii. Green Cleaning 

     d. Who's in charge - Governmental agencies

     e. Who's in charge in hospitals

     f. Green teams

VII. Environmental Health curriculum recommendations for entry level nursing education

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