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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
4122.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 1:30 PM

Abstract #116041

Nursing and environmental health initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Jeanne Beauchamp Hewitt, PhD, RN, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, PO Box 413, Miwaukee, WI 53122, 414-229-5463, jbhewitt@uwm.edu

The UW-Milwaukee Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center has three efforts underway to support the advancement of Nursing and Environmental Health. Since 2000, we have supported masters students who elect to specialize in environmental health in their practicum experience and master's project through the Great Lakes Scholars (GLS) in Environmental Health Program (funded by ATSDR). Under the same program, Dr. J. Hewitt presents lectures on environmental health to graduate and undergraduate nursing students each semester. Approximately 175 undergraduate students and 25-30 graduate students are reached through the GLS lectures each year. In 2004, Dr. Hewitt developed and offered a new course to 22 senior-level students on occupational and environmental health nursing. The GLS lectures and this course are designed to meet the Institute of Medicine's (1995) core and advanced competencies. Dr. Hewitt also serves as a resource to faculty, academic teaching staff, clinical staff, students, and alumni for electronic and other resources, as well as provides telephone consultations and referrals regarding environmental health. The next step is a faculty development initiative, which is being implemented in collaboration with Harvard's Environmental Health Center, to offer two national conferences on Nursing and Environmental Health. The focus of this initiative is to develop key nursing faculty (N = 30) and public health nurses leaders (N = 20) at each of the two conferences who can be champions of incorporating environmental health in their respective educational and public health nursing settings. Evaluation of these initiatives and the challenges encountered will be addressed.

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Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

Strategies for Integrating Environmental Health Into Nursing Education and Public Health Nursing

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