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  • Nursing education
  • Public health policy

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  • In 2010, the American Nurses Association (ANA) mandated the integration of environmental health into nursing practice.
  • This standard requires nurses to implement environmental health strategies.
  • There was a recognized need to prepare nurse educators for this integration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop environmental health competencies for nursing faculty.
  • To create curricular recommendations for integrating environmental health into nursing education at all levels.
  • To provide resources for implementing environmental health education.

Main Methods:

  • Nursing faculty from the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments collaborated.
  • Competencies and curricular recommendations were developed.
  • Internet URLs for environmental health curricula were compiled.

Main Results:

  • Environmental health competencies for nurse educators were established.
  • Curricular recommendations for undergraduate and graduate nursing programs were created.
  • Accessible resources, including URLs, were provided for curriculum development.

Conclusions:

  • Nurse educators are now equipped with competencies and curricula to teach environmental health.
  • The developed resources support the integration of environmental health across all nursing education levels.
  • This initiative addresses the ANA's requirement for environmental health in nursing practice.