A4:

Environmenta
l Control

HELLO
Environment Control :
Guiding
Environmentally Safe

EXTERNAL
ASSESSMENT

OPPORTUNITIE
S

OPPORTUNITIE
S

Learning to accomplish tasks and goals utilizing

each individuals strengths
Fostering healthy relationships with one another
to create a cooperative working environment
Giving one another constructive criticism can
enhance each others skills not only as a nurse
but also as an individual outside the work
environment
Listening to one another professionally and
personally will encourage development in each
individuals voice and perspectives in relation to

THREATS
Threats that could undermine our group, and our
mission and vision are the ff:
Internal instability
External instability (constant changing of
groups)
Other groups present have more individual able
to work more efficiently and effectively
Increasing workload
Learning speed/working speed differs

THREATS
Patience is not always a virtue carried by many
Leadership is often seen as a burden
Limited opportunities to experience community
area
Exposure to heat and infections in the
community
Safety in the community
Man-power
Willingness to cooperate

INTERNAL
ASSESSMENT

Strengths

Our RLE group has

mutually agreed to the
aims and objectives of the
program and everyone has
a clear understanding
towards it.

The A4 group is
professional in the clinical
area and in the
community ,among one
another, other healthcare
providers, and patients.

The A4 group exhibits

interpersonal relationships
and communicate
effectively with other
healthcare providers and
patients as well as the
community

The A4 group is able to

adapt accordingly when
need be to the best of their
abilities.

STRENGTHS
UNIQUE RESOURCES:

Our RLE's unique resources are:

Knowledge, positive attitude, great
communicator, Ability to get along with
many different personalities.

STRENGTH
Others see our strength as a group has a
confidence and perseverance in our work

STRENGTH
updated with gadgets, as A4 are updated to current
issues/ trends regarding to primary health care

STRENGTH
A4 has the skills to perform quality nursing care
and are committed to lifelong learning

WEAKNESSES

WEAKNESSES
Time
manageme
nt on doing
certain
tasks.

Misunders
tanding of
other
group
members
intentions
or

Limited
resource
s

WEAKNESSES
unfamiliar
with the
territory

unfamiliar
with the
needs and
actual
problems of
the
community

Needs
further
guidance and
supervision
by clinical
instructor

Short
attention
span.

PRIORITY
PROGRAMS/
ISSUES

PROGRAM:
ENVIRONMENTAL
ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS, ENVIRONMENTAL
THREATS, CURRENT CONDITIONS OF THE COMMUNITY,
AVAILABLE RESOURCES, CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL RELATED
PRACTICES, AS WELL AS ALL ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS THAT
COULD POSE FORMIDABLE THREATS TO FURTHER HEALTH CARE
AND TO HEALTH CARE WORKERS

PROGRAM:
WATER SUPPLY
Water supply, especially during the harsh seasons
are prone to environmental hazards and may carry
vector borne diseases, be easily contaminated
and/or depleted

PROGRAM:
SANITATION
SERVICE
Establishment of increased support for the
promotion of sustainable sanitation and
strengthening of the sanitation awareness in the
community

VISION
We intend to provide our patients and clients
and the community with the best possible
health care a student nurse can provide
focusing on environmental health and how it
affects an individual and families, from
beginning to end to all possible consumers
clients whilst maintaining integrity, utmost care
and most of all human dignity among all our

MISSION
The mission of the current RLE group 4, comprised
of fourth year students, is to provide and
guarantee its chosen community with
opportunities for intellectual growth, cultivation of
environment that provides utmost safety and
health, and the communication and skill
development for teamwork and community
growth.

Goals:
Encourage student nurses to gain a working
understanding of the relationships between human
health and environmental exposures
To integrate knowledge of understanding of relationships
between human health and environmental exposures to
their own practice
To be concerned with the promotion, maintenance and
restoration of health of the natural environment,
particularly with the pollution, degradation and
destruction of that environment caused by human

Goals:
Recognize and address the environmental
hazards (biological, chemical, radiological, and
physical) that might affect themselves, their
patients, and the community at large
Advocate for increased research to better
understand the relationship between health and
the environment
Control of communicable diseases

OBJECTIVES
All student nurses should be able to:
Complete an environmental health history, recognize potential
environmental hazards and sentinel illnesses, and make appropriate
referrals for conditions with probable environmental etiologies.
Follow through with a risk assessment including hazard identification,
exposure assessment, and risk characterizations
Design a risk management plan for the community or the family
addressing education on risk and the costbenefit ratio of risk
management, and a long-term plan on environment control
Allow the participation of the public in the decision-making process
whenever possible and at all appropriate levels.

OBJECTIVES
The community and its primary health care units should be able to:
Develop strategies to defend against environmental threats (These
strategies include involving nurses in decisions related to their practice,
in the development of workplace environmental policies, and in the
establishment, maintenance, and improvement of the healthcare
environment, both present and planned.)
Acquire new knowledge on environmental hazards and threats to the
community and its health
Collaborate with student nurses and health care units and personnel
regarding health related concerns, reporting of cases of illnesses and
submitting to annual or bi-annual examinations
Recognize government programs designed to increase health awareness
and decrease their susceptibility to illness

Specific Objectives
During the 2-week exposure, the team should:

Have an initial Ocular Survey of the community

Establish rapport to Key-persons within the
community.
Identify the current environmental problems
within the community.
Identify key areas in the community that needs
urgent attention.

Specific Objectives
Promote on-going DOH programs regarding
sanitation and waste disposal.
Identify individuals/families susceptible to illness
and provide them information necessary to
prevent and promote their health.
Collaborate to the Barangay Health Workers
findings and design a course of action to address
the current issues within the community

PHILOSOPHY
Nursing as a health care profession and environmental health
as a public health discipline share many of the same roots.
Since environmental health is a good fit with the values of the
nursing profession regarding disease prevention and social
justice according to Mood, registered nurses and student
nurses as well, have a crucial role in assessing and addressing
environmental health issues.
Nurses have long appreciated that a healthy environment
impacts upon the health of individuals, families, communities,
and populations. This knowledge is an underpinning of nursing
practice as expressed by Florence Nightingale in her First Rule

THANKS
!