Strengthening the nursing curriculum: an interdisciplinary course addressing agricultural health and safety.
1.) Agricultural work is a dangerous occupation and incorporating content on agricultural health and safety issues into the nursing curriculum presents a challenge. 2.) The traditional strategy for dealing with these issues has been a single discipline approach. 3.) An interdisciplinary course bringing together faculty and students from the disciplines of agriculture, nursing, and public health proved successful in addressing this content in the curricula of the disciplines involved. 4.) When teaching agricultural health and safety content, it is essential to emphasize an interdisciplinary approach and frame the course in the context of rurality.
Department of Nursing, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA.
Susan
S
Jones
David
D
Dunn
David
D
Coffey
D000383:Agriculture; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing / Q000193:education*