Environmental health has been established as a practice domain for professional nurses. Consideration of the relationship between human health and our environment, including air (indoor and out), water, food, and products is an important part of nursing assessments for individuals and the community. Understanding the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency roles in environmental health is critical to playing a successful role in protecting the environmental and public health. This 12-credit certificate program will prepare nurses to engage in environmental health activities within health care settings, including local and state health departments, regulatory agencies, and non-profit/advocacy organizations. Participants who complete the program will be able to: 1. Assess common environmental health exposures in homes, schools, workplaces, and communities 2. Apply the basic principles of toxicology to environmental health problems 3. Develop intervention strategies to reduce individual and community-wide exposures to potentially toxic exposures 4. Communicate about health risks associated with environmental exposures 5. Note the contribution that disproportionate environmental exposures can have on health disparities 6. Access credible scientific sources of information regarding the relationship between human health and the environment 7. Advocate for institutional, legislative, and regulatory policies that protect the environment and promote environmental health 8. Develop institutional strategies toward sustainability and environmental health 9. Identify the special vulnerabilities to environmental impacts that humans face through the life stages 10. Consider the role that biological monitoring and its resulting body burden data should have on environmental policies and practices

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