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Overview
Overview
Obtaining a complete history affords the opportunity to investigate workplace or community exposures that might affect patients’ present and future health.
Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
Our physical environment can be harmful, especially when people and communities are exposed to toxic substances, irritants, infectious agents, and physical hazards in homes, schools, and worksites. Determining a person‘s risk and reducing exposure require routine exposure history screening with patient assessment and follow-up counseling when needed. Unfortunately, assessing exposure risk is not standard practice in primary care practice. This educational activity will discuss the scope of environmental health, components of an exposure history, and resources for learning more about occupational and environmental hazards.

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  • Explain the scope of occupational and environmental health.
  • Discuss three components of an occupational and environmental exposure history.
  • Identify two resources for obtaining more information about the nature of occupational or environmental hazards.
  • Assess individual risk
  • Evaluate the need for prevention
  • Diagnose and treat occupational and environmental illnesses
  • Develop an awareness of conditions in the community that may contribute to ill health

Course Termination Date: 12/31/23

Content Expiration Date: 06/25/22

Course Originally Released On: 05/01/19
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Course Details

Course Originally Released on : 5/1/2019

REL-ACU-0-CE172-60

Course Author

Grace K. Fortuna

EdD, RN, CHES, FAAOHN

Dana Bartlett

RN, MSN, MA, CSPI

Accreditations
Accreditations

NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

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Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.