Occupational Health Nursing: Worker Assessment, Hazard Recognition and Prevention

Course Purpose

3 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Occupational Health Nursing: Worker Assessment, Hazard Recognition and Prevention.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 3 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

3 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Occupational Health Nursing: Worker Assessment, Hazard Recognition and Prevention.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. State the five levels of the hierarchy of controls in the order the retrieved NIOSH page gives them, and explain why the first three are described as more effective.
2. Explain where personal protective equipment sits in the hierarchy and what the retrieved page says a PPE programme must include.
3. Describe the reported purpose of worker health and safety surveillance and name the data sources the retrieved page lists.
4. Define the Total Worker Health approach as the retrieved page defines it, and give the examples it offers of health problems previously considered unrelated to work.
5. State the reported noise level at which noise is considered hazardous and the NIOSH recommended exposure limit averaged over an eight-hour workday.
6. Explain what ototoxic chemicals are and why the retrieved page treats noise and chemical exposure together.
7. Describe the early signs of hearing loss the retrieved page lists, and state who usually notices first.
8. Explain what respirable crystalline silica is, which work activities generate it, and what the retrieved page states about the reversibility and preventability of silicosis.
9. State what the retrieved page reports about the silica content of some engineered stone products and why that matters for dust control.
10. Describe the reported pattern of work-related asthma symptoms across the working week and why that pattern is a history question rather than a test result.
11. State what the retrieved asthma page says about developing work-related asthma while wearing respiratory protection.
12. Define occupational heat stress as the combination the retrieved page describes, and name the heat-related illnesses and physical injuries it lists.
13. Explain how personal protective equipment can appear in a hazard assessment as both a control and a risk factor.
14. State the reported scale of musculoskeletal disability and work loss in the United States as the retrieved consensus report gives it.
15. State the assault and violent-act incidence rates the retrieved NIOSH course reports for health care and social assistance workers and for nursing and personal care facility workers.
16. State the reported association between shift length, overtime, rest breaks and nursing errors, and the hours of sleep the retrieved primer says most healthy adults need.
17. Describe burnout using the three dimensions of the retrieved definition, and state whether the source classifies it as a medical condition.
18. Explain why the retrieved burnout primer concludes that system-level interventions are likely to be more effective than individual-level ones.
19. Take an occupational history that connects a symptom to a job, a task and a material, in the terms the retrieved sources use.
20. State the limits of this course: nothing in it authorises a fitness-for-duty decision, an exposure limit, a screening schedule or a compliance opinion.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Occupational Health Nursing: Worker Assessment, Hazard Recognition and Prevention.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   What Occupational Health Nursing Is Watching For: Work as an Exposure

4. 4

   The Hierarchy of Controls and Why the Mask Comes Last

5. 5

   Noise, Ototoxicity and Hearing That Does Not Come Back

6. 6

   What Workers Breathe and Carry Home: Silica, Work-Related Asthma and Chemical Exposure

7. 7

   Heat Stress: A Hazard That Kills Healthy People

8. 8

   Musculoskeletal Load and Its Real Scale

9. 9

   Workplace Violence, Fatigue and Burnout

10. 10

    Taking the Occupational History and Feeding the System

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

This Course Satisfies

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