Environmental health and nursing practice [electronic resource] / Barbara Sattler, Jane Lipscomb, editors.

ISBN:

9780826142832

9781281813442

Title:

Environmental health and nursing practice [electronic resource] / Barbara Sattler, Jane Lipscomb, editors.

Author:

Sattler, Barbara, DrPH.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 380 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Pollutants produced by the health care industry -- Occupational health risks in the health care industry -- Latex allergy in health care -- Ergonomics -- Health care without harm: a case study in advocacy -- Toxicology -- Environmental epidemiology -- Finding information about chemicals in our environment -- Risk assessment and risk management of environmental exposures -- Risk communication -- Water pollution -- Drinking water quality -- Air pollution -- How food production can affect safe consumption -- Environmental tobacco smoke and smoking cessation -- Hazardous and municipal waste sites -- Pesticide exposure -- Environmental hazards in the home -- Children's environmental health -- Environmental health risks in the work setting: recognizing sentinel events -- Environmental health risks in schools -- Cross-cultural issues on the Mexican-U.S. border -- Occupational and environmental health history-taking -- Understanding environmental health policy -- Environmental health education -- Advocating for environmental justice: protecting vulnerable communities from pollution -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Environmental health resources.

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Subject Term:

Environmental health.

Nursing.

Industrial nursing.

Added Author:

Sattler, Barbara, DrPH.

Lipscomb, Jane.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2003

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Summary

This is the first book for nurses on how the environment affects nursing practice. Nurses should be concerned with environmental issues for two reasons: 1. Many diseases (such as asthma, lead poisoning, and some cancers) are caused by exposures to toxins in the environment; and 2. Hospitals themselves are sources of pollutants, through release of mercury and dioxin (a byproduct of incinerating plastic PVC products). The book includes information on basic environmental health principles and common environmental health hazards (e.g., in our water, air, schools, hospitals, and homes). It offers a patient assessment tool for exposure to these hazards and strategies for ìgreenerî use of hospital resources. This is both a nursing textbook and a practice manual.

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Choice Review

The publication of Nursing, Health, and the Environment (CH, Jul'96) by the Institute of Medicine increased public attention to the influence of the environment on health and the need to incorporate environmental health into the curricula of schools of nursing. The book under review, edited by Sattler and Lipscomb (both, Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore), two recognized experts in the field of environmental and occupational health, is a primer to introduce nurses to the field of environmental health. It is of utmost importance for nurses in all clinical areas to pay attention to environmental factors that impact health. This book provides an overview of essential environmental health principles (epidemiology, toxicology, risk assessment, and management). Chapters are dedicated to air quality, food, and water as well as the impact of pesticides in the environment on health. Valuable resources in the environmental health field are outlined, and practical information is provided on environmental, community, and workplace assessment. This timely book for nurses on environmental health, regardless of their field of practice, should become part of any nurse's library. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduate through graduate students; professionals; two-year technical program students. S. T. Fitzgerald Johns Hopkins University