Nr443 week 6 discussion Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

NR443 Week 6 Discussion, Environmental Health For this week’s discussion I chose to look at the My Health tab on the EPA (2018) website. The 2014 risk for cancer due to inhalation of toxins in the air in Williamson County, Texas is 32 per million. One surprising thing I learned is that the largest contributor to toxic air in my county are secondary sources at 67.3% and that is a measure of ambient concentrations of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein. This is important information to hav...

NR443 Week 6 Discussion, Environmental Health

Week 3: DQ Resources Assurance is one of the three core functions of public health. Knowing what resources are available is part of this function. Find a resource in your community that could be used as a referral source and share information about the services provided. Who is eligible for the services? What could be done in order to improve the accessibility, acceptability, affordability, or availability of this resource in your community? Make sure to address all four of the A's in your pos...

NR443 Week 6 Discussion, Environmental Health For this week’s discussion I chose to look at the My Health tab on the EPA (2018) website. The 2014 risk for cancer due to inhalation of toxins in the air in Williamson County, Texas is 32 per million. One surprising thing I learned is that the largest contributor to toxic air in my county are secondary sources at 67.3% and that is a measure of ambient concentrations of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein. This is important information to h...

Week 6 Environmental Health Visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s MyEnvironment site at • Identify something new you learned about your environment and how it could be affecting health by completing this statement, “I didn’t know _____.” • How could you, in the role of a community health nurse, address these concerns BEGIN: Professor Droter and Classmates, I didn't know that radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas produced by the breakdown of thorium and ura...

NR443 Week 6 Discussion, Environmental Health

NR443 Week 6 Discussion, Environmental Health For this week’s discussion I chose to look at the My Health tab on the EPA (2018) website. The 2014 risk for cancer due to inhalation of toxins in the air in Williamson County, Texas is 32 per million. One surprising thing I learned is that the largest contributor to toxic air in my county are secondary sources at 67.3% and that is a measure of ambient concentrations of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein. This is important information to hav...

NR443 Week 6 Discussion, Environmental Health For this week’s discussion I chose to look at the My Health tab on the EPA (2018) website. The 2014 risk for cancer due to inhalation of toxins in the air in Williamson County, Texas is 32 per million. One surprising thing I learned is that the largest contributor to toxic air in my county are secondary sources at 67.3% and that is a measure of ambient concentrations of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein. This is important information to hav...

NR443 Week 5 Discussion, Disaster and Communicable Disease Preparedness Preparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing. • Share an overview of a natural or human-made disaster that has occurred in your area in the last 20 years. o Include a URL and reference to the event. This may be a news article. • Describe how your community was impacted. • Describe lessons learned and changes made to preparedness. Hur...

NR443 Week 5 Discussion, Disaster and Communicable Disease Preparedness Preparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing. • Share an overview of a natural or human-made disaster that has occurred in your area in the last 20 years. o Include a URL and reference to the event. This may be a news article. • Describe how your community was impacted. • Describe lessons learned and changes made to preparedness. H...