Environmental health and Nursing
is a comprehensive instructional guide for faculty and students
in associate and bachelor degree nursing programs for incorporating
regional specific environmental health into existing curricula of
schools of nursing. The curriculum consists of six
modules. Examples, case studies, demographic data, and resources
pertain to the Mississippi Delta Region (MDR) make the modules useful
for local and regional experiences. This highly versatile
instructional tool is designed to be used by faculty in undergraduate
nursing programs to the extent they feel it relevant and appropriate
to their program of study. Environmental Health and Nursing
includes vocabulary, objectives, content, learning activities, and
teaching and evaluation methods. The modules include both
basic and advanced nursing strategies, which may be be selected
by the faculty according to the desired level of difficulty.
Reference lists are provided along with a variety of articles, case
studies, documents, and data collection forms, which may be used
to enhance and illustrate portions of the module. The modules
are appropriate for continuing education purposes with practicing
nurses in community based settings. |