Using a site visit to a contaminated location as a focus for environmental health education for academic and public health nurses

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 410-432

  Backus, Ann S N ^a   Hewitt, Jeanne Beauchamp ^b   Chalupka, Stephanie M ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Community case study; Competencies; Environmental health; Environmental health nursing education; Institute of Medicine competencies; Nursing faculty; Public health nursing education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EVALUATION; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FACULTY, NURSING; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE (U.S.); MASSACHUSETTS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748296125     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2006.00580.x     Document Type: Article

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