Participant Resources

EPA Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisoning, 5th edition, 1999

NEETF National Pesticide Competency Guidelines for Medical & Nursing Education, 2003

NEETF National Pesticide Practice Skills Guidelines for Medical & Nursing Practice, 2003

Review of Pesticide Education Materials for Health Care Providers Providing Care to Agricultural Workers, 2006

Pesticide Literature Review, 2004 Ontario College of Family Physicians

National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)

 

Under The National Strategies for Health Care Providers Pesticide Initiative (1998), The Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (PNASH) was awarded one of two five-year cooperative agreements with the EPA to incorporate recognition and management of pesticide poisonings into the education of future health care providers. The second cooperative agreement was awarded to the Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) for a project entitled, Saving Lives by Changing Practice: Pesticide Related Health Conditions Prevention Change Concept.

UW Investigators and faculty and student champions from Northwestern Washington are pursuing significant institutional change through education and the development of new resources and tools for pesticide-related health conditions training. A searchable online database is being built to provide materials to educators nationwide. The database will serve to connect NEETF competencies to 'specialty competencies' by way of pre-defined insertion points. PNASH and the MCN are working concurrently to develop content.

The goal of this project is the integration of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of pesticide poisonings content into pre-med, nursing, mid-level practitioner (PA and NP) and physician training through the collaborative efforts of faculty and students from Heritage University, Seattle Pacific University, MEDEX Northwest, the UW schools of Nursing and Medicine, and WSU, Yakima.

Pesticide content will be tested, the integration process qualitatively characterized, and the results disseminated to educational institutions around the nation.

2008

• 7/22 Quarterly meeting featuring student champions projects held on the UW campus
• Student champions are developing materials to insert into their curriculum which will be tested during the fall quarter
• A case-based searchable database has been developed and is being tested
  
• September will mark the end of Year III of this five year project.

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Administrative Contact: Robin Russell, (800) 330-0827, pnash@u.washington.edu

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