Occupational Health: Core Areas of Knowledge and Competence, Part 4

The nurse OH, especially in those organizations, such as SMEs, a specific environment and health cannot have managers may advise the company on simple measures to reduce the use of natural resources, to minimize the production of waste, to promote recycling and to ensure that the environmental health management is set to any order of the day organizations. The nurse can advise OH find the appropriate specialist in their homes or face the management of environmental health. The nurse occupational medicine can give, taking these problems forward, in the absence of other specialists.

Consulting management and employees in the field of health management at work.

OH nurses are involved in health management in the workplace, you can sometimes asked to act as a consultant for the management and staff for the development of occupational health policies and practices, and can participate in, such as meetings of the safety committee and health, health promotion as a consultant to suit meetings and may be asked independent consulting managers or workers to give that specific concerns about the risks to health.

When connecting to other external health or social authorities.

OH nurses act in an advisory capacity when people see who have problems which, although they cannot directly affect future participation in work or performance, they work together. The nurse may be involved to seek their family doctor or general practitioner or other outside agency right in advising people who may be placed to help the best person.

Health educators and health promoter.

Health education as one of the most important requirements for the promotion of health at work is an integral part of the role of OH nurses. In some countries the nurse is required activities for the adoption of healthy lifestyles in health promotion process and will take part in supporting the health and safety activities. OH nurses can play in society a needs assessment for health promotion, develop priorities for coordination of activities with the management and employees, and plan suitable interventions, coordinate liberating the supply of strategies to promote health and May in the evaluation of the delivery an important role play and results of health promotion strategy.

Consultant

In small and medium-sized enterprises may be the only professional in most cases the available health care nurse occupational medicine, and can help people who work there, with mental health and stress related to work in management. For many people, the medical nurse job, working at the enterprise level, the first point of contact with health care workers can be and these nurses can do much to ensure that people are referred to the proper agency.

Health needs Councilor

A specialist OH nurse must also learn, a nurse in the health-based society needs assessment for both the organizational and individual level. This type of evaluation can be used as a basis for the management of individual cases or of a medicine of the work program. OH nurses can search based in performing the assessment, in dealing with the data capacity used in the evaluation and advise actively interpreting the results and management as a member of the multidisciplinary team.

Evidence Based Practitioner

Increasingly, all health care providers use evidence-based approach to the practice that the professional requires the best available information, based on which to seek their practice. Occupational health nurses are able to literature search, review of the available evidence, which can be in the form of guidelines or protocols and the application of these guidelines in a practical situation.

Occupational health nurses must be well trained, they have presented evidence to identify gaps in current knowledge, and others allow urgent implementation of care plans in order to assess the evidence-based control.

Epidemiologist

The most widely used and form of investigation related illnesses at work accepted and is based on epidemiological studies on a large scale. Occupational health nurses is recommended to do with the principles of family members and applied in basic epidemiology methods.

This is the four-part series, the main areas of knowledge of the occupational health nurse