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Session: PHN's and Environmental Health Professionals: A New Collaboration
4239.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
PHN's and Environmental Health Professionals: A New Collaboration
This invited session seeks to raise awareness of environmental health in all aspects of public health nursing, and foster sustainable collaborative efforts of public health nurses and environmental health professionals within APHA and with other organizations. It will focus on infrastructure development, inter-organizational partnerships, and collaborative strategies for environmental health. APHA, PHN Section and Environment Section leaders, and leaders from other nursing and environmental health organizations will share essential information about environmental health needs across the lifecycle and commitments to collaborative efforts to address these needs through education, practice, research and advocacy.
Learning Objectives: 1. To raise awareness about the central role environmental health in public health nursing 2. To create infrastructure for public health nursing and environmental health professionals' collaboration and strategic endeavors 3. To foster alliances, collaborative partnerships and joint programs among public health nurses and environmental health professionsals
Presider(s):Sonda M. Oppewal, RN, PhD
2:30 PMHealth Care Without Harm  [ Recorded presentation ]
Anna Gilmore Hall, RN, CAE
Part 1 
2:45 PMEnlarging the Landscape: Public and Environmental Health  [ Recorded presentation ]
Marjorie Buchanan, MS RN
3:00 PMPHN and Environment Sections Collaborate for Environmental Health
Kaye Bender, RN, PhD, FAAN
3:15 PMEnvironmental health science
Barbara Sattler, RN DrPH FAAN
3:30 PMNew Voices for the Environment
Brenda Afzal, MS, RN, Anita Nager
3:45 PMBuilding a collaborative APHA infrastructure for environmental health
Marjorie Buchanan, MS RN
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Nursing
Endorsed by:Alternative and Complementary Health Practices; Environment; Occupational Health and Safety
CE Credits:CME, Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA