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Working with Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

Working with Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers. Tammy Austin-Ketch, RN, MS, CS-FNP Clinical Assistant Professor University at Buffalo Doctoral Student SPM. Model of Outreach Care. An outreach model of care is employed to enhance and facilitate participation in health care activities.

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Working with Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

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  1. Working with Migrant andSeasonal Farmworkers Tammy Austin-Ketch, RN, MS, CS-FNP Clinical Assistant Professor University at Buffalo Doctoral Student SPM

  2. Model of Outreach Care • An outreach model of care is employed to enhance and facilitate participation in health care activities. • A mobile clinic is utilized at the place of employment of the farm workers. • The mobile unit is staffed with an attending physician, family medicine residents, a nurse practitioner, medical and nurse practitioner students, interpreters, and nurses.

  3. Model of Outreach Care • Our mobile unit is equipped with a mobile pharmacy to eliminate the extra trip and cost of purchasing medications from a community pharmacy. • Removes the known barriers of transportation, cost, language barriers, and difficulty navigating our complicated Western medicine model.

  4. Model of Outreach Care • Health care and health education are provided in a familiar, “safe” client driven environment by a team of providers that are well known to the migrant and seasonal farmwork community.

  5. Model of Outreach Care • Infants and children enrolled in Agri-Business Daycare centers have also been a major focus of health education. Obesity has become a major concern in this group.

  6. Future Interdisciplinary Research • Clinical Dietetic Student Interns • Summer Internship working collaboratively with FNP students and faculty. • Area of clinical research- dietary patterns and habits of Hispanic children and weight trend changes over time.

  7. Future Interdisciplinary Research • Social Work students (UG) and interns (MSW) • Unique opportunities to assist a vulnerable population with a variety of social issues and to evaluate effectiveness of the interventions that were undertaken. • Graduate School of Education • Provide educational reinforcement of concepts presented in the previous school year and to evaluate the effects of frequent mobility on retention of curricular content.

  8. Future Interdisciplinary Research • School of Dentistry • Effects of transient lifestyle, inadequate access, and limited dental hygiene information on dental health. • Potential to study long-term health complications related to poor dental hygiene.

  9. Future Interdisciplinary Research • School of Public Health and Health Related Professions • Effects of lifestyle on chronic disease states • Mortality studies • Nutrition and obesity studies • Pesticide exposure and toxicity studies • Infant mortality

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