Lesson 741 of 1524
Safety and Security
There are many aspects for the nurse to consider when maintaining individual safety including understanding a patient’s developmental stage of life, physical and psychosocial health risk factors, and any knowledge…
Practice this chapterThere are many aspects for the nurse to consider when maintaining individual safety including understanding a patient’s developmental stage of life, physical and psychosocial health risk factors, and any knowledge… Individual safety is an essential component of good health, and it should be prioritized above anything else.
Environmental safety is also a major concern. Occupational safety is needed to prevent or reduce the risk of work-related injuries.
environmental safety — practices and measures taken to protect and preserve the natural environment, ecosystems, and human health from potential hazards and harmful impacts to health. occupational safety — the practice of protecting workers from injury, particularly those who work in high-risk industries such as health care. psychosocial health — the psychological and social aspects of an individual’s overall health and well-being. individual safety — the state of being free from physical or psychological harm.
Worked example
What does “environmental safety” mean in Safety and Security?
- 1Use the wording this chapter gives for environmental safety.
- 2The book says: practices and measures taken to protect and preserve the natural environment, ecosystems, and human health from potential hazards and harmful impacts to health.
- 3Do not use the meaning of occupational safety. That term means the practice of protecting workers from injury, particularly those who work in high-risk industries such as health care.
Result: practices and measures taken to protect and preserve the natural environment, ecosystems, and human health from potential hazards and harmful impacts to health
Why. That is the meaning this chapter gives for environmental safety.
Do not swap environmental safety and occupational safety. environmental safety means practices and measures taken to protect and preserve the natural environment, ecosystems, and human health from potential hazards and harmful impacts to health. occupational safety means the practice of protecting workers from injury, particularly those who work in high-risk industries such as health care.
Practice margin
This chapter
A fresh set from this chapter only. Choose 10 or 20. Multiple choice and fill-in, with no repeat inside the set.