AgriSafe Nurse Scholar Program
The Nurse Scholar Program is a distance learning opportunity available to rural nurses designed to increase knowledge base in prevention, identification, and assessment of diseases related to agricultural work exposures.
Training topics include:
- Public health strategies in agricultural health and safety
- Opioid risk assessment
- Increasing the use of hearing protection among farmers
- Health and safety issues of the aging farmer
- Prevention of heat related illnesses
- Respiratory health of agricultural producers in clinical practice, including allergic and non-allergic respiratory disease
- Skin diseases common to agricultural industry
- Ergonomics
- Integration of behavioral health for rural practice
- Zoonotic diseases
- Protecting women in agriculture
- Addressing the mental health gap in rural communities
- Health and well-being of immigrant and migrant farm workers
- Personal protective equipment
- Pediatric farm injuries
- The impact of sleep deprivation on safety and health
- The health effects of chemical and pesticide exposures
Rural nurses are eligible to apply. Applicants must commit to completion of the full course.
The cost of the program is $500.
Participants receive 23 credit hours of continuing education.
A 50% ($250) scholarship is available for nurses working in nonprofit organizations, Rural Health Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, government agencies, schools and educational institutions.
A full scholarship ($500) is available for all nurses from Illinois that work in Rural Health Clinics, government agencies, academia, and nonprofit organizations.
Register for the course using the link on the program website.
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