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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR6652
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2006-04-26
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: 62100-000-0
- Contact Person: Candace Burns
- Phone: 9749160
- Email: cburns@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 6652
- Full Title: Occupational Health Nursing III
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Occup Hlth Nur III
- Course Online?: -
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R - Regular
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- Course Description: Focuses on the prevention of occupational injuries and illnesses; direct care in the occupational setting; disability case management; and health promotion and adult education.
- 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
- 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 enhance the educational preparation of nurses working in occupational health.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
- 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
- Objectives: 1. Analyze advanced occupational health nursing and interdisciplinary team roles and functions, including case management.
2. Compare and contrast opportunities and limitations in internal and external practice settings.
3. Analyze the hazards of a selected industry.
4. Examine the principles involved in heath promotion and adult education
- Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze advanced occupational health nursing and interdisciplinary team roles and functions, including case management.
2. Compare and contrast opportunities and limitations in internal and external practice settings.
3. Analyze the hazards of a selected industry.
4. Examine the principles involved in heath promotion and adult education
- Major Topics: Recognition and identification of occupational hazards
Hazard evaluation and analysis
Prevention and control
Overview of direct care in the on-site and off-site settings
Health history
Exposure history
Physical Examination: special considerations in occupational health illness and injury
Clinical Decision Making: occupational health nursing
Practice Guidelines
Disability Case Management
Overview of Health Promotion
Levels of Prevention
Overview of Adult Education
- 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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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.