{"id":3685,"date":"2019-08-30T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2019-08-30T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:59:28","slug":"students-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/students-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Spanish nursing students prepared to face new environmental challenges?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3676 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bombilla.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"135\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In recent years, scientific evidence has shown that climate change is a source of health problems of massive dimensions. Currently, more than 110,000 chemical compounds pollute natural ecosystems, both locally and globally. These substances pollute the soil, the food, the water and the air. The pediatric population is the most vulnerable to exposure to environmental risk factors due to anatomophysiological immaturity and psychosocial dependence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Nurses are in a strategic and privileged position to detect families at risk. Nurses take care of children\u2019s illnesses, educate parents and family members, raise awareness of health, and act as trusted professionals to successfully advocate for and support changes in health policy. Universities play a leading role in the development of educational approaches to solving problems related to sustainable development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In order to determine attitudes, knowledge, and skills related to children\u2019s environmental health in undergraduate nursing students, a study was conducted by members of this research group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A sample of 2,462 undergraduate nursing students was taken from classes at eight Spanish universities: Almer\u00eda, Cantabria, C\u00f3rdoba, Granada, Ja\u00e9n, Lleida, M\u00e1laga and Sevilla. Out of the total 2,462 students in the sample, 2,155 had a good attitude toward addressing children\u2019s environmental health problems, 501 had good knowledge, and 1,162 had good skills. Students who had attended a session on sustainability more than three months prior had a better attitude (9.93%), knowledge (11.16%), and skills (3.82%). And second course students and males had better environmental competency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Undergraduate nursing students have <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">good attitudes; however, they lack knowledge and skills<\/span>. There is a need to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">include children\u2019s environmental health in nursing curricula<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Full text available in: <strong>\u00c1lvarez-Garc\u00eda, C.<\/strong>, \u00c1lvarez-Nieto, C., Sanz-Martos, S., Puente-Fern\u00e1ndez, D., L\u00f3pez-Leiva, I., Guti\u00e9rrez-Puertas, L., L\u00f3pez-Medina, I. M. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3928\/01484834-20190614-04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Undergraduate nursing students&#8217; attitudes, knowledge and skills of children\u00b4s environmental health. J Nurs Educ. 2019; 58 (7):401-408.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, scientific evidence has shown that climate change is a source of health problems of massive dimensions. Currently, more than 110,000 chemical compounds pollute natural ecosystems, both locally and globally. These substances pollute &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Are Spanish nursing students prepared to face new environmental challenges?\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/students-environment\/#more-3685\" aria-label=\"Read more about Are Spanish nursing students prepared to face new environmental challenges?\">Leer m\u00e1s &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,45,244],"tags":[245,246],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nursus-en","category-salud-medioambiental-en","tag-conocimientos-en","tag-estudiantes-de-enfermeria-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}