ANHE

Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments

An Environmental Health eTextbook and Resources

Nutrition

(may be a prerequisite to nursing courses in some schools)

(Consider adding a course objective or part of objective to encourage faculty to include it)

A. Appropriate Environmental Health Content

  1. Content specific to environmental influences on nutrition:  
  • Weather events and food
  • Food/agriculture production (safety and sustainability)
  • Use of pesticides in food production and storage
  • Antibiotics in animals

B. Teaching Strategies and Resources

(ex. readings, questions, assessments, research articles, power points, etc. What might we suggest for strategies?)
    NOTE: NONE LISTED

C. Related Environmental Health Competencies from ANA and ANHE

     Bold objectives below are from ANA (2010) Scope and standards of practice: Nursing.
     Additional objectives are from The Alliance of Nurses for HealthyEnvironments (ANHE, 2009).

  1. Attains knowledge of EH concepts, such as implementation of EH strategies.
  2. Applies knowledge of basic EH concepts to nursing assessment, prevention,and control strategies.

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