Nurses bring primary health care to industrial workers.
Progress in bringing health care to the workplace lags considerably behind progress in bringing health care to where people live. Experience in Botswana shows that the family nurse practitioner--a registered nurse midwife with one year of post-basic training--can provide useful preventive and curative services to people in their places of work.
Occupational Health Unit, National Health Institute, Gaborone, Botswana.
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