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Pediatric Environmental Home Assessment:
Purpose of On-Line Training Exercise for Public Health and Visiting Nurses
Public health nurses and visiting nurses often visit a client's home to help them work through a particular illness. Since many illnesses are linked to environmental hazards in the home, the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) believes the nurse can provide better care and support if the nurse identifies those hazards and takes action to reduce the health threats. Usually this action involves educating the family. Often it involves connecting the family to additional resources that may be available in their community.
To assist nurses (and others who do home visits), NCHH has developed two forms to make it easier to identify potential hazards and the actions needed to address those hazards. We have tried to keep the forms relatively short and focus on the most significant pediatric environmental health threats.
Naturally, we would appreciate your feedback on the forms and ways to improve them. Please send your comments to Susan Aceti at saceti@nchh.org. You are also welcome to take the form and modify it to meet your needs. If you do, we would appreciate getting a copy of your changes so we can understand how to improve our efforts.
To help you make better use of the forms and to better understand the underlying issues, we have developed an on-line training exercise to help walk you through the forms and to see how well you complete the forms in response to the given situation or scenario.
The purpose of this exercise is to teach you how to:
Relationship to Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioner course This on-line training is designed to complement the Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioner course. The knowledge you gained from that course will make this on-line training easier to complete. However, we have designed this on-line training to be self-standing. You should be able to complete it without first taking the Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioner course. |
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