Which activity would be the primary role of an occupational health nurse?
a. Caring for employees and their families
b. Providing health promotion and emergency care
c. Updating the Material Safety Data Sheets
d. Reporting communicable diseases
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, overall risk management, care for the environment, and efforts to reduce health-related costs in business.
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a. Explore the patient's grief. b. Encourage the patient to take frequent rest periods. c. Reassure the patient that these feelings are normal. d. Screen for additional signs and symptoms of depression.
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a. a review of the situation by the state board of nursing. b. termination of employment from the facil-ity. c. mandatory remediation related to the sus-pect care issues. d. unannounced reevaluation of performance within the next 3 months.
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A) Pelvic inflammatory disease B) Chronic liver disease C) Cardiovascular disease D) Lyme disease
In a process recording, the nurse records:
a. a verbatim account of what both the nurse and the client say during a conversation b. nonverbal communications of both the nurse and the client c. specific communication techniques used d. the nurse's evaluation of whether or not the communication was therapeutic e. all of the above