ABOHN Flashcards
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Which ABOHN competency domain encompasses conducting pre-placement physical examinations and fitness-for-duty evaluations?
Answer: Worker and workplace health assessment and surveillance
Pre-placement physicals and fitness-for-duty evaluations are assessment activities that fall within the worker and workplace health assessment and surveillance competency domain.
A COHN-certified nurse is developing a hearing conservation program. Which OSHA standard is most directly applicable to her work?
Answer: 29 CFR 1910.95 – Occupational Noise Exposure
29 CFR 1910.95 governs occupational noise exposure requirements, including audiometric testing and hearing conservation program elements that occupational health nurses administer.
In the context of ABOHN's case management subspecialty, 'disability duration guidelines' are used primarily to:
Answer: Establish expected recovery time benchmarks to guide return-to-work planning
Disability duration guidelines provide evidence-based recovery time benchmarks that help occupational health case managers set realistic return-to-work targets and coordinate care.
Which principle guides the occupational health nurse when balancing confidentiality of an employee's medical record with the employer's need for workplace safety information?
Answer: Sharing only functional limitations and work restrictions, not diagnoses
Occupational health nurses protect medical confidentiality by communicating functional limitations and work restrictions to management rather than disclosing underlying diagnoses.
An ABOHN-certified nurse implements a worksite health promotion program targeting cardiovascular risk. This action reflects which function of occupational health nursing?
Answer: Primary prevention through health promotion
Worksite wellness programs targeting risk factors before disease develops represent primary prevention, a core occupational health nursing function.
What is the most critical reason for maintaining accurate OSHA 300 logs as part of occupational health nursing recordkeeping?
Answer: Tracking injury and illness trends to identify hazards and drive prevention
OSHA 300 logs enable systematic analysis of workplace injury and illness trends, helping occupational health nurses and safety teams identify hazards and target prevention efforts.
An occupational health nurse applying ABOHN's ethical framework encounters a situation where a manager pressures her to clear an injured worker for full duty prematurely. Her ethically correct response is to:
Answer: Base the return-to-work decision solely on clinical and functional assessment findings
Ethical occupational health nursing requires that return-to-work decisions be grounded in objective clinical and functional data, independent of managerial pressure.