community health nursing

Visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s MyEnvironment site at http://www.epa.gov/myenvironment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and enter your city and state, ZIP code, or location into the location box. Explore the site to learn more about your environment and things that might be impacting the health of its citizens.

• Identify something new you learned about your environment and how it could be affecting health by completing this statement: “I didn’t know _____.”
• How could you, in the role of a community health nurse, address these concerns?

Optional: For more environmental health information, you can also visit the following websites.

• Environmental health tracking: http://ephtracking.cdc.gov/InfoByLocation/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Air quality: http://www.airnow.gov/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Toxic release inventory: http://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.