Nursing, Health, and the Environment

Status: Available Now

Size: 304 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1995

Print	List Price


HARDBACK ISBN-10: 0-309-05298-X ISBN-13: 978-0-309-05298-6	$47.95	Add to Cart

PDF			About PDF

Authors:
Andrew M. Pope, Meta A. Snyder, and Lillian H. Mood, Editors; Committee on Enhancing Environmental Health Content in Nursing Practice, Institute of Medicine
Authoring Organizations

Description:
America's nurses, an estimated 2 million strong, are often at the frontlines in confronting environmental health hazards. Yet most nurses have not received adequate training to manage these hazards.
Nursing, Health, and the Environment explores the effects that environmental hazards (including ...
Read More

Reviews:
"...easy to read with well-thought out ideas and concepts."
--American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, December 1996 ...
Read More

Paste into your Web page:

<!-- Start NAP Book Display -->
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="175" height="250" id="napbookwrapper" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.nap.edu/napbookwrapper.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="flashvars" value="wid=7244481222013052134917&record_id=4986" />
<embed src="http://www.nap.edu/napbookwrapper.swf" quality="high" flashvars="wid=7244481222013052134917&record_id=4986" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="175" height="250" name="napbookwrapper" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>
</object>

Preview

Free Resources

Full Text
Jump to this book's table of contents to begin reading online for free.

Related Items:
Related Titles

No free downloads available for this title.

Reprint Permission
Request permission to license or reprint the book's content through Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink.

Request Permission to Distribute a PDF

Request Translation Rights

Questions About Rights and Permissions?

Table of Contents
Select a link below to start reading online free!
Front matter	i-xiv	(skim)
Executive Summary	1-12	(skim)
1 Introduction	13-22	(skim)
2 Overview of Environmental Health Hazards	23-38	(skim)
3 Nursing Practice	39-68	(skim)
4 Nursing Education and Professional Development	69-102	(skim)
5 Nursing Research	103-120	(skim)
References	121-128	(skim)
Appendixes	129-130	(skim)
Appendix A: Position Statement from the International Council of Nurses: The Nurse	131-133	(skim)
Appendix B: Environmental Hazards for the Nurse as a Worker	134-141	(skim)
Appendix C: Environmental Health Curricula	142-147	(skim)
Appendix D: Environmental Health Resources: Agencies, Organizations, Services, General References, and Tables of Environmental Health Hazards	148-238	(skim)
Appendix E: Focus Group Summary and List of Participants	239-252	(skim)
Appendix F: Nursing Advocacy at the Policy Level: Strategies and Resources	253-262	(skim)
Appendix G: Taking an Exposure History	263-270	(skim)
Appendix H: Acknowledgments	271-272	(skim)
Appendix I: Committee and Staff Biographies	273-278	(skim)
Index	279-288	(skim)

Description

America's nurses, an estimated 2 million strong, are often at the frontlines in confronting environmental health hazards. Yet most nurses have not received adequate training to manage these hazards.
Nursing, Health, and the Environment explores the effects that environmental hazards (including those in the workplace) have on the health of patients and communities and proposes specific strategies for preparing nurses to address them.
The committee documents the magnitude of environmental hazards and discusses the importance of the relationship between nursing, health, and the environment from three broad perspectives

Practice--The authors address environmental health issues in the nursing process, potential controversies over nurses taking a more activist stance on environmental health issues, and more.
Education--The volume presents the status of environmental health content in nursing curricula and credentialing, and specific strategies for incorporating more environmental health into nursing preparation.
Research--The book includes a survey of the available knowledge base and options for expanding nursing research as it relates to environmental health hazards.

Reviews

"...easy to read with well-thought out ideas and concepts."
--American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, December 1996

Authoring Organizations

Institute of Medicine (IOM)

More Titles from IOM

Search This Book

»Find more like this book

SIGN UP FOR...

New Title Emails
Read about the newest releases and receive special offers.