Discuss environmental pollution in North Carolina

Health sciences and medicine

Choose an environmental health issue or concern in your community. Thoroughly review the hazard, including its effect on people, the interventions that could or should take place, and the role that nurses should play in reducing or eliminating this hazard.

Read your local newspaper and identify articles describing environmental issues in your community (i.e., air pollution, water pollution, hazardous wastes, and food borne illnesses). Define the exposure pathway (i.e, mode of transmission, route of exposure, receptor population, and dose, etc). List at least two key environmental exposure questions that the nurse should ask during the assessment. Briefly discuss the nurse’s advocacy role in risk communication related to the environmental health issue

You have been asked to set up a disaster preparation program for your town or school or organization. Describe how you would set up a disaster preparation program through the stages of preparation (preparedness, response and recovery) and the nurse’s role in each phase) outlined in your book. Discuss how disaster management is related to Healthy People 2020. Specifically consider areas that relate to unintentional injury, environmental health, and food and/or drug safet

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