AAOHN Editors' Hour: Assessing the Literature for OHN Clinical and Professional Practice Guidance

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Editors' Hour: Assessing the Literature for OHN Clinical and Professional Practice Guidance

Presented by Kate McPhaul, Phd, MPH, RN; Sally Foster-Chang, DNP, ANP-BC, COHN-S, CME

Thursday, September 21, 2023

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm CT

Contact Hours: 1.0

AAOHN Members: FREE

Non-Members: $30

Consider a clinical or case-management issue in your current practice. For example, have you wondered if you are using the latest guidelines for hypertension counselling or other chronic disease management? How about back pain, Return to Work (RTW), pain management, respirator medical clearance, cumulative trauma injuries and work guidance, or counselling pregnant people about work exposures?

There are many sources of published information to inform your clinical and professional practice, however, clinicians must be knowledgeable about controversies and evolving practice guidance. Guidelines are ever-changing and may even be controversial. This webinar will be conducted by the Workplace Health & Safety journal editorial staff. We will review selected sources of up-to-date clinical guidelines for your practice such as systematic reviews and the Cochrane Library using the Evidence Based Guidelines framework from DNP programs. We will also review government repositories, such as the CDC and NIH to add to your collection of sources for clinical practice guidance. 

We will use real-life clinical examples from occupational health (OH) practice to demonstrate a process for finding and trusting the most recent clinical guidance for your practice problems.

Course Outcomes:

1. Develop a key word search strategy for an OH clinical problem.  
2. Test the key word strategy for obtaining timely clinical guidance.  
3. Assess the sources of clinical guidance to determine the relevance and credibility for OHN practice. 
4. Locate and critique one US government source of clinical practice guidelines for relevance to OHN practice. 

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