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The Role of the Agricultural Health Nurse BRINGING TOGETHER COMMUNITY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH by Susan A. Randolph, MSN, RN, COHN, and Adeline Alexander Migliozzi, MSN, RN, COHN ccupa t iona l health nurses work in di are the workers, with the farm being both the verse settings and focus on the preven workplace and the home. O tion of work related morbidity and mor According to A Report to the Nation: Agricul tality as well as maintenance of employees' ture at Risk, agricultural work continues to be one health. They are typically employed in manufac of the most hazardous occupations, with death turing facilities; hospital employee health serv and permanent disability rates that remain con ices; local, state, and federal governments; insur sistently high (Merchant, 1989). The report noted ance companies; and other business settings. that an occupational safety and health agenda for Unfortunately, the agricultural setting is agriculture is lacking in the United States, and rarely considered an "industry." Farms do not cites a number of reasons for this omission. have four walls with a well defined work force. A general awareness of the problems relative Often family members, including young children, to safety and health in agriculture
AAOHN Journal – SAGE
Published: Sep 1, 1993
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