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KimWrice

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A nurse is employed in an occupational health setting. Which of the following activities would be a primary role of the nurse?
 
  a. Caring for employees and their families
  b. Providing health promotion and emergen-cy care
  c. Updating the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs)
  d. Reporting communicable diseases

Question 2

A nurse in the occupational health arena is implementing a secondary prevention strategy. Which of the following best describes the action that was taken by the nurse?
 
  a. Providing education on safety in the workplace to prevent injury
  b. Working with chronically diabetic workers to ensure appropriate medications
  c. Screening for hearing loss resulting from noise levels in the plants
  d. Ensuring that a person with cardiovascular disease attends a rehab program



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
The customary role of the occupational health nurse extends beyond emergency treatment and prevention of illness and injury and also includes the promotion and maintenance of health, over-all risk management, care for the environment, and efforts to reduce health-related costs in busi-ness. The occupational health nurse does not typically care for families of employees, update MSDSs, or report communicable diseases.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Secondary prevention occurs after a disease process has already begunscreening for hearing loss. Tertiary prevention includes those interventions aimed at disability limitation and rehabilita-tion from disease, injury, or disabilityworking with chronically diabetic workers and ensuring that a person with cardiovascular disease attends rehab. Primary prevention is aimed at preven-tion of a disease before it occursproviding education on safety in the workplace to prevent in-jury.




KimWrice

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Reply 2 on: Jul 8, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Gracias!

 

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