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Recognizes routes of exposure, examine relationships between chemical exposures in the workplace and acute and latent health effects such as burns or cancer, and understand dose response relationships
What is toxicology?
100
This is responsible for promulgating and enforcing occupational safety and health standards
What is Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)?
100
The first industrial nurse
Who is Ada Mayo Stewart?
100
To prevent occupational health and safety hazards in the work and environment place, this is important to assess
What is to identify work related agents and exposures that are potentially hazardous?
100
These are the skills that are needed to meet present and future demands of occupational health nursing practices
What are Management and budgeting skills and knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements, toxicology, ergonomics, epidemiology, environmental health, safety, counseling, and health promotion and education are essential?
200
Identifies and controls workplace injuries through active safeguards and worker training and education programs about job safety
What is safety?
200
These programs provide income replacement and pay for health care services for workers who sustain a work related injury, temporary or permanent disability or death
What is Workers' Compensation Acts?
200
When the Factory Nurses Conference was organized the group was only open to these types of nurses
Who are graduates and state registered nurses affiliated with the American Nurses Association
200
This would be considered an example of an occupational hazard or exposure that would effect an individuals health
What is acids and burns? (Table 30-2)
200
These are the competency categories of occupational health nursing
What are 1. Clinical and primary care 2. Case management 3. Workforce, workplace, and environmental issues 4. Regulatory and legislative 5. Management 6. Health promotion and disease prevention 7. Occupational and environmental health and safety education and training 8. Research 9. Professionalism
300
Identifies and evaluates workplace hazards so control mechanisms can be implemented for exposure reduction
What is industrial hygiene?
300
A comprehensives act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability
What is Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
300
During and after ________ many nurses lost jobs because employers viewed industrial nursing as non essential
What is The Great Depression?
300
Occupational biological hazard
What is blood or bodily fluids?
300
The 9 competencies of occupational health nursing develop from this
What is AAOHN?
400
Matches job to worker, emphasizing capabilities and minimizing limitations
What is ergonomics?
400
The occupational health nurse much be aware of the liability and legal issues related to the following:
What are the employee-nurse relationship, the employment capacity of the occupational health nurse and any acts of negligence?
400
The first elected president of the American Association of Industrial Nurses
Who is Catherine R. Dempsey?
400
In this level of prevention the nurse weighs the patient and checks their cholesterol
What is primary prevention?
400
The three levels of competency for occupational health care nurse
What are Competent, Proficient and Expert?
500
The specialty practice that focuses on the promotion, prevention and restoration of health within the context of a safe and healthy environment
What is Occupational health nursing?
500
This passage of legislation came about because there were concerns for workers' health, a burgeoning environmental awareness, union, activities and an increased knowledge about workplace hazards
What is The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970?
500
The office of Occupational Health nursing was established by _______
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
500
A work related injury or disease that effects the back or upper extremity.
What is musculoskeletal injuries?
500
These are examples of skills related to workforce/workplace issues
What are • Having knowledge of work site operations, manufacturing processes, and job tasks • Identifying and monitoring potential and existing workplace exposure • Influencing appropriate and targeted recommendations for control of workplace hazards • Having knowledge of toxicological, epidemiological, or ergonomic principles • Understanding appropriate engineering and administrative controls and personal protective equipment specific to preventing workplace health hazard exposures • Understanding roles and collaboration with other cross-functional groups as an integral part of a core multidisciplinary team • Performing risk assessments • Managing health surveillance programs