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DNPO 715 - Environmental Health for Advanced Nursing Practice (3)


This course will explore environmental determinants of health and disease. Determine health problems associated with environmental hazards that contribute to current diagnoses and those that have not yet caused illness but are amenable to intervention. Design preventive actions to abate hazards prior to manifestation of disease. Consider environmental health concepts as a core advanced nursing function to strengthen nursing’s contribution to disease prevention. This is a three (3) credit hour course and students are expected to complete forty-five (45) clock hours.