Healthy Homes Training for Professionals:
A Review of the Eight Healthy Homes Principles
This Healthy Homes Training for Professionals reviews the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Eight Healthy Homes Principles, including methods to reduce common childhood exposures to home safety hazards and environmental contaminants like mold, radon, lead, carbon monoxide, and particulate pollution. Presenters: Amy Ferry, B.S, CHES®, Victoria Lopes, B.S., and Anais Smith, B.A., of the Northern Regional Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Healthy Homes Coalition, a program of the Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey.
Target Audience: Nurses, Pediatricians, Obstetricians, Midwives, Community Health Workers, and other health professionals.
Learning Outcome: At the conclusion of the program, the participants will self-report intent to incorporate the knowledge and skills gained related to the importance of educating families on identifying common environmental health hazards in and around the home and methods to reduce or prevent exposures to such hazards.
Successful Completion: To receive contact hours for participating in the continuing education program, the registrant must enroll in the webinar, view the entire presentation, and complete and submit a post-test and electronic evaluation. A certificate of completion will be distributed within two weeks of submission of the evaluation.
Disclosure/Commercial Support: The planners and speakers do not have any conflicts of interest to report for this activity. There is no commercial support for this activity.
Continuing Nursing Education Contact Hours: This program has been awarded 1.5 contact hours.
Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by New Jersey State Nurses Association an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.P194-3/23-26.
Approval status does not imply endorsement by the Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey, NJSNA or by ANCC of any commercial products discussed/displayed in conjunction with the educational activity.