Barriers and facilitators to the incorporation of environmental health into public health nursing practice

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-130

  Hill, Wade G ^a   Butterfield, Patricia ^b   Kuntz, Sandra ^a  

^a Montana State University College of Nursing   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Environmental health competencies; Environmental health nursing; Public health nurse practice; Public health nursing education

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING PRACTICE; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTANA; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 77950610044     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2010.00835.x     Document Type: Article

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