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Goals and Objectives of the Conference

INTRODUCTION
Occupational health hazards are a big problem especially among nurses who constitute the biggest percentage of health care workers and are in constant touch with the patients.

Uganda is excellently suited to hold this conference since it has a lot of experience to share in the field of Occupational Health Hazards. Recently, the ebola epidemic between October 2000 and January 2001 claimed the lives of 17 nurses, 3 student nurses and 1 medical doctor at Lacor Hospital in Gulu.

Although Uganda has successfully recovered from this disaster, there is need to share the strategies that were used so that the world community can learn from Uganda's experience.

GOAL
It is hoped that by the of this conference the participants will be equipped with adequate information about OHH, the necessary knowledge and skills to prevent, control and manage OHH. This will, in turn, enable the participants to protect themselves while caring for patients , families, and the communities in their respective districts. This will significantly reduce the incidence of injury and disease among nurses and hence reduce morbidity and mortality from OHH.

Specific Objectives

To bring together nurses and student nurses from varying backgrounds and different envronments to share their knowledge and experiences regarding OHH.
To create awareness and increase knowledge about the reality of OHH and its prevention among the nurses and student nurses.
To increase awareness of what should be done after injury or infection from OHH.
To identify some of the relevant and practical methods of dealing of OHH so that they can be used by student nurses and nurses to prevent or deal with OHH.
To discuss the impact of OHH and nursing care delivery, nurses training and current methods in the prevention, control, and management of OHH.
To discuss the effectiveness of the currently used measures in the prevention, control and management of OHH.
To draw conclusions and make recommendations on OHH aimed at influencing government policies to further improve the prevention and control of OHH and compensation of the victims/families of OHH back to homepage