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Creating the Nurses' Environmental Awareness Tool (NEAT).

Elizabeth Schenk¹, Patricia Butterfield², Julie Postma²

¹Washington State University Providence Health & Services Elizabeth.schenk@wsu.edu.

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|July 29, 2015

Summary

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Nurses face environmental health risks from acute care. A new tool, the Nurse's Environmental Awareness Tool (NEAT), was developed to measure nurses' understanding of these impacts.

Keywords:

disease prevention environmental impacts health promotion occupational hazards research

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Area of Science:

Environmental Health
Nursing Practice
Health Care Delivery

Background:

Acute care generates waste, uses energy, and employs chemicals, posing risks to patients, staff, and the environment.
Nurses are significantly impacted by these risks and are key to mitigating them.
Existing tools lack psychometric validation for measuring nurses' environmental awareness in practice.

Purpose of the Study:

To address the lack of validated instruments for assessing nurses' environmental awareness.
To develop a prototype tool measuring nurses' understanding of the environmental impacts of their practice.

Main Methods:

Development of a prototype tool, the Nurse's Environmental Awareness Tool (NEAT).
Review and revision of draft items by seven content experts in environmental health nursing and psychometrics.
Analysis of expert feedback to refine scale items and design.

Main Results:

A draft NEAT prototype was created, comprising six subscales organized into three paired subsets.
The process involved iterative item development and expert-driven revisions.
Preliminary findings establish a foundation for future psychometric validation.

Conclusions:

The study successfully created an instrument to measure nurses' awareness and behaviors regarding the environmental impact of nursing practices.
The developed tool, NEAT, is a crucial first step towards promoting environmentally safe health care delivery.
Further psychometric testing is essential to confirm the reliability and validity of NEAT.