Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volume 38
Nursing Perspectives on Environmental Health
Beth Schenk, PhD, MHI, RN-BC, FAAN
This landmark annual review has provided nearly four decades of knowledge, insight, and research on topics critical to nurses everywhere. The purpose of this annual review is to critically examine the full gamut of literature on key topics in nursing practice, including nursing theory, care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing.
Environmental issues such as chemical exposures, air and water pollution, climate change, and food sustainability impact health on both a local and global scale. This thirty-eighth volume of Annual Review of Nursing Research addresses the influence that nurses have on environmental health. It contains research, education, advocacy, and practice-based articles that provide nurses with a primer on this growing issue, as well as the information needed to provide capable care while supporting environmentally healthy solutions.
- Key Topics:
- Air Quality Impact Upon Human Health
- CHANT: Climate, Health, and Nursing Tool
- Climate Change Initiatives in Nursing Education
- Environmental Health Equity
- Nurse-Sensitive Environmental Indicators
- Nurses’ Contributions to Health-Related Wildfire Research
- Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
- Water in Detroit and Flint, Michigan
About the Volume Editor
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgment
Foreword
Research Findings: Environmental Health Nursing
1 Utility of a Low-Cost, Dense Sensor Network for the Study of Air Quality Impact upon Human Health in Urban and Rural Areas
2 The Impact of Chronic Ambient Exposure to PM2.5 and Ozone on Asthma Prevalence and COPD Mortality Rates in the Southeastern United States
3 Omics for Nurse Scientists Conducting Environmental Health Research
4 Neighborhood Environment and Asthma Exacerbation in Washington, DC
5 A Scoping Review of Nurses’ Contributions to Health-Related, Wildfire Research
6 CHANT: Climate, Health and Nursing Tool: Item Development and Exploratory Factor Analysis
7 A Comparison of Environmental Concerns in Two Disparate Montana and Nevada Communities
Educational Issues in Environmental Health Nursing
8 Environmental and Climate Change Initiatives in Nursing Education
9 Advancing a School of Nursing Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health
Advocacy and Policy Relevant to Environmental Health Nursing
10 Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: An Emerging Contaminant of Concern
11 Environmental Health Equity: A Concept Analysis
12 Farmworkers: Environmental Health and Social Determinants
13 The Crisis and the Shutoffs: Reimagining Water in Detroit and Flint, Michigan, Through an EcoJustice Analysis
Practice Issues Related to Environmental Health Nursing
14 The Confidence of New Nurse Graduates in the Application of Environmental Health in the Nursing Process
15 A Proposal: Nurse-Sensitive Environmental Indicators
16 School Nurses and Climate Change
Index
- Release Date: December 23, 2019
- Hardback
- 322 Pages
- Trim Size: 6in x 9in
- ISBN: 9780826143358
- eBook ISBN: 9780826143365
