A safe and healthful work environment: development and testing of an undergraduate occupational health nursing curriculum

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• Personal Author:
  Berry P ; Cohn S ; McCullagh MC
• Description:
  Occupational health nursing focuses on promotion and restoration of health, prevention of illness and injury, protection from work-related and environmental hazards, and corporate profitability. Quality education about the relationship between work and health is critical for nurses' success regardless of work setting, and is consistent with Healthy People 2020 goals, but is lacking or limited in some programs. This report introduces an innovative occupational health nursing curriculum for students enrolled in baccalaureate nursing programs. The process of designing and pilot testing this novel curriculum, its alignment with nursing competencies, and its format and learning activities are described. Preparing professional nurses to understand the role of the occupational health nurse and the relationship between work and health is an essential curricular consideration for contemporary nursing education. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Health Personnel Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Nursing Education Baccalaureate Competencies Curriculum Health-care Nursing Occupational Health And Safety Team Occupational Health Nursing Preventive-medicine Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices

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• ISSN:
  2165-0799
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  328-332
• Volume:
  63
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047016
• Citation:
  Workplace Health Saf 2015 Aug; 63(8):328-332
• Contact Point Address:
  Marjorie C. McCullagh, University of Michigan School of Nursing, 400 N. Ingalls St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109
• Email:
  mcculla@umich.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Workplace Health & Safety
• End Date:
  20280630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4554b662420a3c05dbd23916905beec401f50f5a2968635938fe1e84eb4de2b7a2c2eafcfcfa1c3f4106d7bf8be6c7e6fb844bf805e714827690af58cb92e63f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202252/cdc_202252_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 94.16 KB ]