Environmental health and nursing: implementation of educational workshops with employees of general services

Abstract

Background: to describe the contribution of educational workshops on environmental health for employees of general services at a public institution of higher education.Method: exploratory, descriptive research with a qualitative approach.For the collection, a questionnaire with subjective and objective questions was used, and the steps of pretest, educational workshop and post-test wereincluded in March and April 2015, with 55 employees. For data analysis,thematic and categories were prepared.