Environmental Health Aide
Environmental Health Aide

Author: National Learning Corporation

Publisher: National Learning Corporation

Published: 2019-02

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781731819598

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The Environmental Health Aide Passbook(R) prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to; Vocabulary; Reading comprehension; General science, including chemistry and biology; Interpretation of graphs and maps; Record keeping; and more.

Essential Environmental Health Standards for Health Care
Essential Environmental Health Standards for Health Care

Author: John Adams

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2008-05-16

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9241547235

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Ensuring safe environmental health conditions in health care can reduce the transmission of health care-associated infections. This document provides guidelines on essential environmental health standards required for health care in medium- and low-resource countries and support the development and implementation of national policies.

Environmental Health and Nursing Practice
Environmental Health and Nursing Practice

Author: Barbara Sattler (DrPH.)

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780826142825

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Nurses, pharmacologists, toxicologists, engineers, epidemiologists, and others address the ways in which the environment affects nursing practice. Twenty- seven contributions are organized into four sections: the environment and the health care workplace, addressing latex allergy, ergonomics, and other topics; environmental health basics including toxicology, environmental epidemiology, and other matters; environmental health risks in specific populations and settings including in the home, workplace, schools, and cross-cultural issues on the Mexican-US border; and integrating environmental health into nursing practice using policy change, health education, and other means. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate
Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 0309463483

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On March 13, 2017, the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement jointly convened a 1-day public workshop in Washington, DC, to explore potential strategies for public health, environmental health, health care, and related stakeholders to help communities and regions to address and mitigate the health effects of climate change. Participants discussed the perspectives of civic, government, business, and health-sector leaders, and existing research, best practices, and examples that inform stakeholders and practitioners on approaches to support mitigation of and adaptation to climate change and its effects on population health. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Patient Safety and Quality
Patient Safety and Quality

Author: Ronda Hughes

Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13:

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"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/