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The Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) began this initiative to
support environmental health knowledge, skills, and awareness among
nurses who serve individuals and communities.
Nurses are important
to environmental health because they
- play key roles in
protecting the health of all people;
- are in direct contact
with patients, families, and communities from many cultural and
socioeconomic backgrounds; and
- have the credibility
and access that enables them to provide scientifically sound information
about environmental issues and toxic exposures.
The initiative promotes
and supports nurses' contributions to promoting environmental health
for individuals and communities. The initiative is a collaborative
effort to increase and sustain environmental health knowledge and
skills in nurses and other health professionals.
- The vision
of the initiative is to create a sustainable role for environmental
health in professional nursing.
- The goal
of the initiative is to make environmental health an integral
component of nursing practice, education, and research.
- Accomplishments
of the initiative include
- development of
educational tools and resources, including online Webcasts,
environmental health curricula, pocket guides, and the Web
site for the initiative;
- implementation
of training programs nationwide; and
- collaboration
with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
and the National Institute of Nursing Research for an environmental
health nursing roundtable.
To
learn more about the initiative, contact
Teresa
Nastoff by phone at 404-498-0530; fax, 404-498-0061;
or e-mail, tnastoff@cdc.gov;
Mailing address
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Division of Health Education and Promotion
1600 Clifton Road, NE (MS E-33)
Atlanta, GA 30333
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