Nurses in Occupational Practice in Agricultural and Rural Communities in New York State: Providing Occupational Health and Safety Education and Prevention Services

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• Personal Author:
  Ackerman SB ; Fulmer T ; Gaetano DE ; Hodge BD ; Jastremski CA
• Description:
  Nursing practice in occupational health in agricultural and rural communities encompasses all the traditional nurse functions of patient care, teaching, and research, and may at times be conducted in very nontraditional settings such as farm buildings and fields, village firehouses, highway workshops, community meetings, and even major trade shows. In such settings, nurses can be performing health assessments by checking blood pressure or cholesterol readings, conducting teaching sessions and disseminating health information to a group of rural residents, providing counsel and referral for an injured farm worker, or reviewing medical records for injury surveillance research data. The focus for nurses who practice in public and occupational health is not as much on the individual and a disease state as it is on the group or population and the preservation of health through prevention. This requires the nurse to have a comprehensive understanding of the occupational, environmental, economic, and cultural dimensions of that population, including the risks and hazardous exposures that impact their health and safety. As the nurse utilizes this knowledge in rural and occupational practices, a valuable contribution is being made to advance evidence-based research in the promotion of a healthy and safe working population. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Community Health Services Farmers Health Personnel Health Promotion Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Community Health Farm Workers Health Promotion Injury Prevention Nursing Occupational Health Nursing Public Health Surveillance Programs
• ISBN:
  9780826170859
• Publisher:
  Springer Publishing Company, LLC
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  421-438
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053054
• Citation:
  Rural nursing: concepts, theory, and practice, fourth ed. Winters CA ed. New York: Springer Publishing Company, LLC, 2013 Mar; :421-438
• Editor(s):
  Winters CA
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Rural nursing: concepts, theory, and practice, fourth ed
• End Date:
  20270831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a9765e275c9254d3f8bce4e61d16823999ff7a355918db72b117795bdb720b2ae50c9ca4c8c72ac0db8eac7f4b8e1cda634dff452bfa887712775646b76d54b7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/215904/cdc_215904_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.26 MB ]