A Nurse's Guide to Children's Agricultural Safety

Welcome to the North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) online training resource for nurses.

Upon completion of the course and correctly answering 70% of the quiz questions, nurses will receive 2.5 continuing education credits.

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Audience

This material is designed for nurses working with farm families. However, anyone with an interest in child safety on farms can participate in this course.

Purpose

The purpose of this continuing education offering is to help the nursing professional working with rural families understand the importance of adult responsibilities in assigning agricultural tasks to children. The North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (Guidelines, at www.nagcat.org) are geared toward helping parents choose jobs that are matched to the abilities of their children. The goal of the Guidelines is to reduce the level of risk for children, with the ultimate goal of preventing farm work-related injury and illness. This course will help health care providers give informed guidance to parents in making those decisions.

Objectives

After completing this course material, you will be able to:

State the significance of the childhood injury problem.
Explain how a child's ability affects their potential for injury.
Identify two developmental stages of children, including the characteristics of children and risks related to those characteristics.
State the relationship between adult responsibilities and potential for injury for the working child.
Describe at least six farm hazards and the specific protective measures an adult can use to eliminate or minimize the hazard potential.
Apply three Guidelines to three specific situations.

Quiz

The on-line quiz will be available after you complete the course. Information found in the hyperlinked sections is fair game for quiz questions.

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Acknowledgements

Funding for original development of this course in 2003 was provided in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health as part of the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety Education and Research Training Grant (CDC/T42/CCT510422-06) supplement for Agricultural Safety and Health, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. The current module is sponsored in part by a grant provided by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, an agency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the Midwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.