Expiration Date: December 31, 2009
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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 (See CE catalog)
1. Discuss concepts of toxicology that are important in understanding and evaluating environmental health issues.Part II – Science and Regulating Chemicals (See CE catalog)
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.Part III – Environmental Health Laws and Regulations
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 III – Environmental Health Laws and Regulations - 0.93 Contact Hours
Jay Feldman, MA, executive director of Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides (NCAMP), is a cofounder of the organization and has served as its director since 1981. Jay has helped to build Beyond Pesticide's capacity to assist local groups and impact on national pesticide and alternatives policy. He has tracked specific chemical effects, regulatory actions, pesticide law, and safe pest management. His work with the media has helped to bring broader public understanding of the hazards of pesticides and availability of alternatives, especially organic. Jay provides policy direction and overall coordination of Beyond Pesticides' activities to control pesticides and promote non-chemical alternatives; writer/editor, Beyond Pesticides' quarterly newsletter Pesticides and You, since 1981; editor of Beyond Pesticides' monthly Technical Report since 1986; organized or co-organized Beyond Pesticides' National Pesticide Forums held in 1981 and annually since 1984. Publications include numerous Beyond Pesticides' publications, including Safer Schools, The Schooling of State Pesticide Laws, Pole Pollution, Poison Poles, Voices for Pesticide Reform, A Failure to Protect, Safety at Home and Unnecessary Risks, and numerous articles on pesticides and schools, food safety and agriculture, farmworker protection, landscape management, children and related issues. Provides testimony regularly before the U.S. Congress since 1979 and on the School Environment Protection Act before the Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry Subcommittee, Agriculture Committee, U.S. House of Representatives in July 2001. Author of the School Environment Protection Act; co-author, Organic Farming Act and contributor to the Organic Foods Production Act. Jay has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a B.A. from Grinnell College. Mr. Feldman has not disclosed 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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