EnviRN – Evidence is a National Library of Medicine Express Outreach Award funded online training program that will enhance nurses' skills and knowledge of environmental health, and allow them to integrate environmental health into their professional practice. Additionally, EnviRN – Evidence will familiarize them with accessing evidence based information from the National Library of Medicine's TOXNET® resources.
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ENVIRN - EVIDENCE
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The Institute of Medicine notes that all nurses should integrate environmental health into their education, practice, research, and policy efforts, yet environmental health is poorly incorporated into nursing curriculum. Thus, new nurses are ill prepared to assess and address environmental health problems. With this project we will create a self-paced, problem-based tutorial for nurses - faculty, nursing students, and practicing nurses - about the relationship between environmental exposures and health outcomes and the location of reliable informational and data sources that are part of TOXNET®.
The training includes an introduction to environmental health for nurses, introductions to select TOXNET® resources, and 4 environmental health case studies to illustrate how TOXNET® can be used in education, practice, and research. The training program includes instructions to faculty who may want to use this training for curricular purposes, instructions for practicing nurses on how they can use TOXNET® resources to help determine the risks associated with their patients’ and communities’ environmental exposures (home, work, school, community), and instructions for nurse researchers on the TOXNET®’s unique informational resources. Envirn - Evidence incorporates case studies: one on children’s exposures, one involving women during pregnancy, one involving a rural community’s population-based exposure, and one illustrating the environmental justice implications of asthma. The project was designed in collaboration with librarians serving nurses at USF, the PSR RML, NLM TOXNET® staff, and USF faculty experts, in partnership with Education Committee members of the international Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. |
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DEVELOPERS
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Barbara Sattler, RN, DrPH, FAAN.
Dr. Barbara Sattler is a Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Professionals at the University of San Francisco, and a leader and an expert in environmental health and nursing. She is the author of numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed articles on environmental health, and is a frequent presenter at conferences and educational webinars on environmental health and nursing.
Claire Sharifi, MLIS
Claire Sharifi is a health sciences librarian from the University of San Francisco who has participated in online and in-person trainings on TOXNET® resources from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Additionally, Ms. Sharifi has extensive experience teaching practicing nurses, nursing students, and public health students to use TOXNET® to find evidence based research on environmental health topics.
Jaemie Anne Abad.
Jaemie Anne Abad is a new graduate nurse from the University of San Francisco with a minor in Public Service and Community Engagement. She has worked with the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments to promote environmental health awareness, education, and advocacy.
Michelle Ruiz.
Michelle Ruiz is an online education designer at the Center for Instruction and Technology and a graduate student in the Digital Technologies for Teaching and Learning program at University of San Francisco. Michelle has experience in creating engaging and inclusive e-learning products.
Lu Jiang
Lu Jiang is currently a graduate student at the Digital Technologies for Teaching and Learning masters program at the University of San Francisco. She is also part of the Center for Instruction and Technology at USF's school of education.
Alisa Ivanova
Alisa Ivanova is currently an undergraduate nursing student at the University of San Francisco. She is passionate about studying nursing and healthcare and hopes to work as a neonatal, pediatric, or maternity nurse in the future.
Jaemie Anne Abad is a new graduate nurse from the University of San Francisco with a minor in Public Service and Community Engagement. She has worked with the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments to promote environmental health awareness, education, and advocacy.
Michelle Ruiz.
Michelle Ruiz is an online education designer at the Center for Instruction and Technology and a graduate student in the Digital Technologies for Teaching and Learning program at University of San Francisco. Michelle has experience in creating engaging and inclusive e-learning products.
Lu Jiang
Lu Jiang is currently a graduate student at the Digital Technologies for Teaching and Learning masters program at the University of San Francisco. She is also part of the Center for Instruction and Technology at USF's school of education.
Alisa Ivanova
Alisa Ivanova is currently an undergraduate nursing student at the University of San Francisco. She is passionate about studying nursing and healthcare and hopes to work as a neonatal, pediatric, or maternity nurse in the future.