Presenter: Barbara Sattler, DrPH, RN

Expiration Date: December 31, 2009
No CE contact hours (CH) will be given after this date.

Abstract & Objectives

The four independent study modules in this series were originally presented and recorded as teleconferences with PowerPoint Slides in the spring of 2006 to prepare nurses for attending the SAFER Chemical Policy Workshop.

Each CE module is presented here independently. You must complete the CE process and print out certificates for EACH part of the series. Contact hours for each are listed below next to the title. The total number of contact hours for the entire series is 3.12.

The purpose The purpose of the series is to give nurses background information for educating other nurses in a wider nurse community on this topic.

Objectives:

Part I – Toxicology/Pharmacology

1. Discuss concepts of toxicology that are important in understanding and evaluating environmental health issues.
2. Compare and contrast the key concepts of environmental toxicology with concepts of pharmacology.

1. Discuss the difference between health-based and risk-based chemical regulation.

1. Describe the Federal Insecticide, fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and its limitations.
2. Identify what categories of chemicals are exempt from the Toxic Substances control Act (TSCA).

Part IV – Coming Clean and The Louisville Charter (See CE catalog)

1. Outline, in brief, the history of Coming Clean and the Louisville Charter.
2. Describe and discuss the six principles that the Louisville Charter is based on.
3. Discuss efforts in states where the Louisville Charter has been used as the basis for re-making police at the state level.

Part I – Toxicology/Pharmacology - 0.95 contact hours

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• Nursing and Chemical Policies

The Presenter

Barbara Sattler, DrPH, RN

Dr. Barbara Sattler is the Director of the Environmental Health Education Center at the University of Maryland School of Nursing where she is an Associate Professor. The Environmental Health Education Center, a multidisciplinary center in Baltimore, is engaged in training, education, and research related to environmental health. (Web site www.envirRN.umaryland.edu. Dr. Sattler directs the first Environmental Health Nursing graduate program in the country, preparing nurses at both the Masters and Doctoral level. She is the principle investigator for "Community Outreach" for the EPA Hazardous Substance Research Center with the Johns Hopkins University Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering in which she and a multidisciplinary team are working with communities with concerns about hazardous waste sites. Dr. Sattler has been the principal investigator and co-investigator on several projects including a new "Healthy Homes Initiative" funded by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and a CDC grant on childhood lead poisoning prevention. She has been an active member of Health Care Without Harm (www.noharm.org) and Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (www.h2e-online.org). She is a founding member of the Environmental Health Task Forces for the Public Health Nursing Section of the American Public Health Association and the Maryland Nurses Association and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nurses. She is a Registered Nurse with both a Masters and Doctorate in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. She is the co-author of Environmental Health and Nursing.

Dr. Sattler has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

The American Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP6178.

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