Bringing Healthcare Justice to the Front Line: Integrating Environmental Health into Nursing Practice

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Bringing Healthcare Justice to the Front

Line: Integrating Environmental Health into Nursing Practice

A LIVE WEBCAST

PRESENTED BY:

Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM

Director of

Performance Improvement & Women's Health Specialist

Migrant Clinicians Network

LEARNING

OBJECTIVES

Environmental

health hazards are often insidious, and generally poorly understood. Emerging

research suggests that environmental hazards may be the ultimate threat to

human health. Nurses occupy a unique position in health care and are

often the initial and sometimes the only, point of contact for people seeking

health care. Nurses have the opportunity to make important

contributions to the health of individuals and communities through

recognition and prevention of environmental illnesses, injuries and

exposures. This session will highlight strategies for the incorporation of

environmental health in practice settings for nurses by

offering a model of best practices involving a

pilot program at a Migrant and Community Health Center to help improve the

care for pregnant migrant farmworker women who work and live in areas where

environmental hazards such as pesticides, lead and heat exposures are

ubiquitous. This initiative evolved out of requests from nurses and other

clinicians wanting to address a growing concern for birth defects following

severe birth defects in 2004 and 2005 in babies born to three migrant

farmworker women who resided in the same labor camps and harvested crops from

the same fields. The partnership was unique in its focus on perinatal care

services offered by certified nurse-midwives.

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Tuesday, December

7, 2010 1:00 PM EST

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