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Nurses' Agricultural Education in the
Southeastern United States
Deborah Reed, Ph.D.,
Principal Investigator
Zaida Belendez, N.D., (College
of Public Health), Co-investigator
Funded by a subcontract from
the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Grant #1 U50 OH07547-01
(2001-2006)
Abstract
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The southern region of the United States leads the nation in
the number and percentage of total and rural populations in
poverty. Much of the region is medically underserved. Nurses
and nurse practitioners are increasingly filling this gap in
health services. These nurses serve the needs of 516,437
farm families and their labor forces, yet few nursing
curricula include any mention of the hazards associated with
agriculture.
This project focuses on (1)
increasing the agricultural health knowledge of nurse
educators, researchers, and graduate nurse students in the
south, (2) determining how nurse educators use agricultural
curriculum, (3) providing formats for the education of nurse
educators and nurse researchers about agricultural
illness/injury prevention, and (4) providing opportunities
for graduate and faculty research focusing on agriculture.
Methods include repeated surveys of the 132 colleges of
nursing in the Southern Nursing Research Society area,
multiple educational methods (Web, continuing education,
visiting faculty), student scholarships, and consultative
service for agricultural nursing research. Descriptive
analysis, repeated measures analysis, and enumeration of
research, publications, and student evaluation will be
conducted. A nurse evaluation team will provide guidance to
the project and plan an agri-nurse conference to be held in
year five of the project. The intended goals of the project are
to increase nurses’ knowledge of agricultural health
hazards and to foster nurse led agricultural health
research.
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