Author(s): Sharafat Ali
There are a number of issues and risk factors which can affect the health of workers in every occupation. As an employee and occupational health nurse, I also observed some issues in my organization. I was assigned a project to be conducted as a part of my course, I selected the “Emergency First Aid Training Awareness in occupational health” for my project. During my assessment I observed that there are many issues related to occupational health, like physical health hazards, chemical health hazards and biological health hazards. But foremost of them was lack of knowledge of occupational workers regarding emergency first aid care. I assessed the knowledge of workers by developing a questionnaire. Most of them were unaware about first aid at a work place. I arranged different sessions for the workers to trained them regarding first aid provision in their work place. I used different teaching aids like poster presentations, showing videos clips and demonstration. I also used the concept of “Orem’s self-care theory” in my project. The results of my implementation of sessions and demonstration were effective. The employees demonstrated good skills of first aid at the end of my project.
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