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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 : 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM

Laura Anderko, RN, PhD , School of Nursing and Health Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Environmental health nursing research harkens back to the days for Florence Nightengale. ANHE's Research Workgroup has been successful in supporting nurse researchers nationally in a variety of ways including a peer mentoring program, a data base of publications in environmental health by nurse researchers, and a Research Retreat. Plans are underway for presentation of workshops on environmental health nursing research at Nursing Research Society conferences to expand awareness of this emerging trend to merge environmental health and nursing science.

Learning Areas:
Environmental health sciences
Public health or related nursing

Learning Objectives:
Identify current focus areas of environmental health nursing research Discuss resources for conducting environmental health nursing research Describe how the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments supports nurse researchers

Keywords: Environmental Health, Nurses

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am co-chair of the Research Workgroup of the Alliance and also chair of the Board of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE). I have conducted a number of environmental health studies and published extensively in this area.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 4299.0: From theory to practice: Innovations for integrating environmental health into nursing research, education, practice, and advocacy
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