The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA
Session: Environmental Health Skills Building for Nurses and other Public Health Practitioners
1006.0: Saturday, November 9, 2002: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Oral
Environmental Health Skills Building for Nurses and other Public Health Practitioners
Statement of Purpose and Institute Overview:
The Institutes of Medicine recognized in its "Nursing, Health and the Environment" the nurses' role in addressing environment health is critical, however nurses have not historically received education in this area. The purpose of this institute is to explore the relationship between public health and the environment while building assessment skills (both individual and population-based), enhancing intervention skills, and reviewing resources (both governmental and non-governmental). A general overview of the types of environmental health issues will be presented to help the participants develop a framework for considering common environmental exposures and their human health outcomes. Special populations, such as children, may have particular vulnerabilities to environmental exposures requiring adaptation of public and community health nursing processes. Participants will be introduced to a range of representatives from organizations that address environmental health so as to provide them with contacts with whom they can continue to communicate after the conference. Attendees will be encouraged to incorporate the individual and community assessment strategies into their practices. Ultimately, the goal of the institute will be to forward the recommendations of the IOM report which is to help integrate environmental health into all aspects of the nursing profession: practice, education, research, advocacy and policy. The modest goal of this particular institute CEI will be to provide new knowledge and tools to the participants and then to provide them with supporting resources, including experts and resource people with whom they can continue to depend for support.
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of the institute participants will be able to: 1. Describe environmental risk factors in the home, school, workplace, and community. 2. Define environmental health. 3. Demonstrate new skill in community environmental health assessment. 4. Describe environmental intervention roles and strategies for disease prevention. 5. List two goals of the "upstream framework." 6. Name two environmental health initiatives that provide direction for local nursing actions. 7. Exhibit an enhanced knowledge of hazardous materials and their toxic effects on individuals an sub-populations, including children. 8. Explain environmental health risk communications strategies. 9. Describe two emerging issues in children's environmental health. 10. Describe children's special vulnerabilities. 11. Demonstrate increased skill in environmental exposure assessments using the pneumonic IPREPARE. 12. Discuss environmental health resources (expertise, books, journals, and electronic sources) and the "right to know" points of access to information. 13. Outline, in brief, the history of environmental initiatives in the U.S. and the resulting legislation and regulations. 14. Describe the roles of nurses related to children's environmental health status within the health care industry. 15. Describe the roles of nurses related to children's environmental health. 16. List three environmental exposure pathways. 17. List the skills that are necessary to do an epidemiological investigation of environmental health problems. 18. Discuss approaches and tools for community participation and education in environmental health.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organizer(s):Barbara Sattler, RN, DrPH
9:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
9:29 AMPre-assessment tool (Mood)
9:30 AMA Toxic Tour: A brief tour of home, workplace, school and community with statistics about known exposures and health outcomes
Barbara Sattler, RN, DrPH
10:00 AMEnvironmental Health Assessment using the Mnemonic "I PREPARE"
Grace K. Paranzino, RN, MS, CHES
10:30 AMBreak
11:00 AMChildren's Environmental Health
Elizabeth Blackburn, RN
11:30 AMCommunity-Focused Environmental Health: What Every Public Health Nurse Needs to Know
Stephanie Chalupka, EdD
12:00 PMSmall Group Case Studies
12:30 PMNew partners rising to the environmental heath challenges of our neediest communities
Lois Marie Gibbs, MS
1:30 PMCommunity (public) involvement in environmental health: Risk communication goes two ways
Lillian Mood, RN, MPH, FAAN
2:00 PMCommunity Based environmental health: Local environmental health nursing initiatives
Patricia Butterfield, PhD, RN
2:30 PMAccess to Information - "Right to Know" about chemicals in our drinking water, workplace, and communities
Brenda Afzal, RN, MS
3:00 PMBreak
3:30 PMInternet Access to extremely useful information
Stacy Arneson, MS
4:00 PMGallery Walk of Federal Agencies and NGOs
Barbara Sattler, RN, DrPH
4:30 PMWrap-Up, Post Assessment Tool
4:40 PMConcluding Remarks
Organized by:APHA-Continuing Education Institutes
CE Credits:Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA