| 1 |
Environmental questions on recertification exams |
| 2 |
NCLEX-RN questions on environmental health |
| 3 |
Articles in American Journal of Nursing (AJN), Excellence in Clinical Practice, and Nurse Week on environmental health |
| 4 |
Environmental health workshops |
| 5 |
QA/TQM/CQI program with environmental health items |
| 6 |
Strategically place students in essential organizations: NIOSH, ATSDR, CDC |
| 7 |
Continuing education program in AJN on nursing and the environment |
| 8 |
More basic information for nurses to demystify environmental health nursing |
| 9 |
Improve working relationships with interdepartmental persons—a team approach |
| 10 |
Adequate funding for education, planning, and implementation |
| 11 |
Internet- or televideo-based programs (distance education) for nominal fees |
| 12 |
A textbook for beginning environmental health nursing |
| 13 |
Get environmental health listed as a requirement or competency in undergraduate nursing education |
| 14 |
Education and classes for family nurse practitioners and doctors |
| 15 |
Provide knowledge of environmental health to guidance counselors in high school setting to promote interest in this field |
| 16 |
Incorporate environmental epidemiology into undergraduate and graduate curricula |
| 17 |
Promote and recognize nurses working with the environment (i.e., create a registry of environmental health nurses (potential speakers) |
| 18 |
Create a registry of potential employers of environmental health nurses |
| 19 |
Educate nurse educators |
| 20 |
Prepare/present environmental panels and programs at national meetings like APHA, ANA |
| 21 |
Environmental health continuing education for all health care providers in all facilities |
| 22 |
Public health nursing training, which is being developed, should include environmental health nursing |
| 23 |
Training for the board of health and county commissioners |
| 24 |
Recognize, identify and incorporate environmental health issues into our daily practice (lead by example and inform others that this is how we practice!) |
| 25 |
Enlist the support of respected lobbying groups (e.g., Ralph Nader, AARP) to counter corporate groups |
| 26 |
Environmental health nurse practitioner specialty |
| 27 |
More environmental health in graduate education, not mixed with NP programs |
| 28 |
Family/home assessment with an environmental health risk checklist |
| 29 |
Broaden ownership of environmental health by articulating how the role is within scope of practice and how the role is different from other disciplines roles (i.e., public health/community health nursing) |
| 30 |
Incorporate questions regarding environmental health into the admission history and assessment. |
| 31 |
Network with our colleagues to see what is happening and what they are doing or seeing |
| 32 |
Publicize environmental health nursing research agenda |
| 33 |
Environmental health awards in nursing |
| 34 |
Media campaign regarding environmental health nursing |
| 35 |
Cultivate media friendships |
| 36 |
Connect and explicitly state the relationships between environment and health (i.e., environment and prenatal risks, environment and poison control, environment and dermatological problems, environment and communicable disease) |
| 37 |
Education departments of hospitals/county health department could have inservices on environmental causes of presenting illness and interventions to deal with it |
| 38 |
Publish, publish, and publish |
