Lecture 21- Occupational and Environmental
Health Nursing
occupational and environmental health nurses -
Type of nursing that work with employers to cultivate creative and business-appropriate health and
safety programs.
occupational health nursing -
The specialty practice that focuses on the promotion, prevention, and restoration of health within
the context of a safe and healthy environment
interdisciplinary; employee's right to have cost-effective, prevention-oriented health and safety
programs. -
The practice of occupational health nursing utilizes an _______ approach to advocate for...
1. help maximize employee efficiency
2. reduce cost by preventing work related injuries, disability claims, absenteeism -
Main 2 reasons why have businesses begun to hire occupational health nurses
use the nursing process to prevent occupational illness and injury by making sure they are compliant
with laws, regulations, and guidelines for workplace health and safety -
The main task of an occupational health nurse
Ada Mayo Stewart -
The first industrial nurse in the United States.
primarily focused on providing infant and child health education to the employee families -
The early tasks of an occupational health nurse
Occupational Safety and Health Act -
The act that led to the proliferation of occupational health nursing employment in the United States.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) -
The department that was created from Occupational Safety and Health Act that ensures a safe
working environment for workers in the United States
- gathering health and hazard data
- evaluating the effects of workplace exposures
- developing workplace prevention programs -
Ways the occupational health nurse can mitigate or prevent health effects of the work environment
- rise in health care cost
- diversity of system with managed care
- shift from production of goods to services
- increase in technology
, - shaping alternative approaches to health care -
Industrial transformations in the 21st century
- large medical/ industrial clinics
- hospital based occupational nursing
- state departments of health
- insurance companies -
•Agencies external to business and industry also provide occupational and environmental nursing
services
direct; indirect -
OCHN services may be in the form of ____ care (e.g., rehabilitation of an injured worker) or
______ care (e.g., consultation on implementing regulations regarding record keeping or compiling
health statistics).
attending to the health of workers in smaller companies
(because these companies tend to have more hazards because equipment and controls are often
inadequate) -
A place in Occupational health that has a continuing unmet need
1. compliance
2. care
3. health promotion -
Occupational health nursing practice can be divided into three main categories
- genetic info Nondiscrimination Act (GINA),
- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- ADA
- HIPAA
- EPA -
Prominent guidelines that come from OSHA that OCHN have to abide by
true -
T/f The OHN is typically the first person to evaluate an injury that occurs in the workplace.
- decrease health care cost
- improve worker quality
- improve companies cost effectiveness -
The primary reason employers establish an on-site clinic with a OCHN
true -
T/F Occupational health and environmental nursing activities can assist employers to reduce the
amount of time employees remain out of work because of illness and injury.
- immunizations
- safe lifting demonstrations
- assessments of preexisting limitations so that reasonable accommodations (per the ADA) can be made
to prevent work-related injuries -
Health Nursing
occupational and environmental health nurses -
Type of nursing that work with employers to cultivate creative and business-appropriate health and
safety programs.
occupational health nursing -
The specialty practice that focuses on the promotion, prevention, and restoration of health within
the context of a safe and healthy environment
interdisciplinary; employee's right to have cost-effective, prevention-oriented health and safety
programs. -
The practice of occupational health nursing utilizes an _______ approach to advocate for...
1. help maximize employee efficiency
2. reduce cost by preventing work related injuries, disability claims, absenteeism -
Main 2 reasons why have businesses begun to hire occupational health nurses
use the nursing process to prevent occupational illness and injury by making sure they are compliant
with laws, regulations, and guidelines for workplace health and safety -
The main task of an occupational health nurse
Ada Mayo Stewart -
The first industrial nurse in the United States.
primarily focused on providing infant and child health education to the employee families -
The early tasks of an occupational health nurse
Occupational Safety and Health Act -
The act that led to the proliferation of occupational health nursing employment in the United States.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) -
The department that was created from Occupational Safety and Health Act that ensures a safe
working environment for workers in the United States
- gathering health and hazard data
- evaluating the effects of workplace exposures
- developing workplace prevention programs -
Ways the occupational health nurse can mitigate or prevent health effects of the work environment
- rise in health care cost
- diversity of system with managed care
- shift from production of goods to services
- increase in technology
, - shaping alternative approaches to health care -
Industrial transformations in the 21st century
- large medical/ industrial clinics
- hospital based occupational nursing
- state departments of health
- insurance companies -
•Agencies external to business and industry also provide occupational and environmental nursing
services
direct; indirect -
OCHN services may be in the form of ____ care (e.g., rehabilitation of an injured worker) or
______ care (e.g., consultation on implementing regulations regarding record keeping or compiling
health statistics).
attending to the health of workers in smaller companies
(because these companies tend to have more hazards because equipment and controls are often
inadequate) -
A place in Occupational health that has a continuing unmet need
1. compliance
2. care
3. health promotion -
Occupational health nursing practice can be divided into three main categories
- genetic info Nondiscrimination Act (GINA),
- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- ADA
- HIPAA
- EPA -
Prominent guidelines that come from OSHA that OCHN have to abide by
true -
T/f The OHN is typically the first person to evaluate an injury that occurs in the workplace.
- decrease health care cost
- improve worker quality
- improve companies cost effectiveness -
The primary reason employers establish an on-site clinic with a OCHN
true -
T/F Occupational health and environmental nursing activities can assist employers to reduce the
amount of time employees remain out of work because of illness and injury.
- immunizations
- safe lifting demonstrations
- assessments of preexisting limitations so that reasonable accommodations (per the ADA) can be made
to prevent work-related injuries -
