Environmental Health and Nursing PracticeSpringer Publishing Company, 2003 - 380 pages 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 "greener" use of hospital resources. This is both a nursing textbook and a practice manual. |
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Contents
Pollutants Produced by the Health Care Industry | 3 |
Occupational Health Risks in the Health Care Industry | 11 |
Latex Allergy in Health Care | 27 |
Ergonomics | 39 |
A Case Study in Advocacy | 51 |
Toxicology | 61 |
Environmental Epidemiology | 73 |
Finding Information About Chemicals in Our Environment | 87 |
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Smoking Cessation | 157 |
Hazardous and Municipal Waste Sites | 169 |
Pesticide Exposure | 181 |
Environmental Hazards in the Home | 219 |
Childrens Environmental Health | 229 |
Environmental Health Risks in Schools | 259 |
CrossCultural Issues on the MexicanU S Border | 275 |
Occupational and Environmental Health HistoryTaking | 287 |
Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Environmental | 99 |
Risk Communication | 107 |
Water Pollution | 113 |
Drinking Water Quality | 119 |
Air Pollution | 135 |
How Food Production Can Affect Safe Consumption | 143 |