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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR6653
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Current Status: Approved, Permanent Archive - 2006-07-31
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  1. Date & Time Submitted: 2006-04-26
  2. Department: Nursing
  3. College: NR
  4. Budget Account Number: 62100-000-0
  5. Contact Person: Candace Burns
  6. Phone: 9749160
  7. Email: cburns@health.usf.edu
  8. Prefix: NGR
  9. Number: 6653
  10. Full Title: Occupational Health Nursing IV
  11. Credit Hours: 3
  12. Section Type: C - Class Lecture (Primarily)
  13. Is the course title variable?: N
  14. Is a permit required for registration?: N
  15. Are the credit hours variable?: N
  16. Is this course repeatable?:
  17. If repeatable, how many times?: 0
  18. Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Occup Hlth Nur IV
  19. Course Online?: -
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  21. Grading Option: R - Regular
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  24. Course Description: Focuses on the management of psychosocial factors in the occupational setting; examples of occupational health and safety programs; environmental health; research; and professional issues related to occupational and environmental health nursing.

  25. Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: To enhance the educational preparation of nurses working in occupational health
  26. What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? To fulfill the educational requirements for occupational health nurses desiring to take the National Occupational Health Nursing Certification Examination
  27. Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
  28. What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) MS in Occupational Health and CHON-S
  29. Objectives: 1. Examine the psychosocial factors affecting worker and worker populations.

    2. Compare and contrast occupational health and safety programs.

    3. Examine the principles of environmental health.

    4. Explore research supporting evidence based practice and professional issues that advance the specialty of occupational and environmental health nursing.

  30. Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine the psychosocial factors affecting worker and worker populations.

    2. Compare and contrast occupational health and safety programs.

    3. Examine the principles of environmental health.

    4. Explore research supporting evidence based practice and professional issues that advance the specialty of occupational and environmental health nursing.

  31. Major Topics: Overview of psychosocial factors impacting occupational health nursing

    International travel heath and safety program

    Hearing-loss prevention program

    Hazard communication program

    Drug and alcohol testing program

    Emergency preparedness/disaster planning

    Ergonomics programs

    Environmental health risks across settings

    Nurses’ roles in environmental health

    Professional mandates for research

    Research roles of occupational and environmental health nurses

    Professional associations

    Competency in occupational and environmental health nursing

    Role expansion

  32. Textbooks: American Association of Occupational Health Nurses. (2003). Competencies in occupational and environmental health nursing. AAOHN Journal, 51(7), 290-302.(Will be available on Blackboard).

    American Association of Occupational Health Nurses. (2004). Standards of occupational and environmental health nursing. Atlanta: Author. (Will be available on Blackboard).

    Salazar, M.K. (Ed.)(2001). Core curriculum for occupational and environmental health nursing, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company

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