This week's graded topics relate to the following Course Outcome (CO).
• CO6: Utilize a systems-based and collaborative approach to address factors that influence the health of a community and population health problems. (PO2)
Visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's My Environment site at http://www.epa.gov/myenvironment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and enter your city and state, ZIP code, or location into the location box.
Choose one of the topic areas.
• My Health
• My Climate
• My Air
• My Water
Then, click on the boxes under the Map Contents menu to add data into the map on specific topics. Explore the site to learn more about your environment and things that might be impacting the health of its citizens.
• Identify something new you learned about your environment and how it could be affecting health by completing this statement, "I didn't know _."
• How could you, in the role of a community health nurse, address these concerns?
Optional: For more environmental health information, you can also visit the following resources.
• Environmental health tracking: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/InfoByLocation/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Air quality: http://www.airnow.gov (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Toxic release inventory: https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program
Reading
Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2019). Community/Public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations (7th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier.
• Chapter 14: Environmental Health, pp. 252-265, 266-271
Required
SBIRT Education. (n.d.). Overview of screening, assessment and brief intervention: a nursing response to the full spectrum of substance use. Retrieved from https://hospitalsbirt.webs.com/nursingsbirt.htm (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Choose “Watch On Demand Recording”
o Start at minute 9:08/slide 12, end at 1hr 27 sec. (slide 80)
Or you may go directly to the YouTube video:
SBIRT Education. (2015, May 10). Overview of SBIRT: a nursing response to the full spectrum of substance use [Video File]. Retrieved fromOverview of SBIRT: A Nursing Response to the Full Spectrum of Substance Use (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2016). MyEnvironment. Retrieved from https://www3.epa.gov/myem/envmap/find.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
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