Recorded Webinar - Protecting Workers by Recognizing, Preventing, and Treating Heat-Related Illnesses (HRI) in the Workplace
Credit
CNE:1.0
Description
Presenter:
Melanie Ezell Hayes, DNP, APRN, NP-CCourse Description:
Each year, thousands of workers succumb to preventable serious and fatal heat-related illnesses often due to lack of worker and employer awareness and understanding of the risk of occupational heat exposure and failure to take preventive measures or intervene when signs and symptoms occur.Join this webinar to learn how OHNs can educate workers and employers to recognize, prevent and treat heat-related illnesses and provide a safer workplace for workers.
Course Outcomes:
1. Discuss risk factors and identify signs and symptoms of heat-related illness with appropriate interventions and treatment strategies.2. Discuss employer responsibilities and the OHN Role in Preventing occupational heat-related illness in the workplace.
Contact Hours and Cost
1.0 Contact HoursMembers: $0
Nonmembers: $30
Requirements for successful completion: view entire webinar, complete online evaluation
Contact hours are available for all webinars whether you participate in the live event or the recorded viewing. Contact hours for this webinar will expire on April 27, 2025.
The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. (AAOHN) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
AAOHN follows the American Nurses Credentialing Center guidelines in calculating continuing nursing education credits. With every educational activity and evaluation that is completed, each one (1) hour of education time is equal to one (1) continuing nursing education credit.
The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. is additionally approved as a CNE provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing (#CEP9283).
AAOHN Webinar Sponsor:
This webinar is sponsored by the University of Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering through a NIOSH funded grant.
No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies exist for anyone in a position to control content of this activity, including planners, planning committee members, presenters/instructors, authors, and content reviewers.