Evaluation of an Occupational Health Nursing Program through Competency Achievement

Competency in occupational health.

Work is unanimously considered a major health determinant. Knowledge of people’s working conditions greatly contributes to the recognition and prevention of damages to their health and to health promotion. Following in the footsteps of Ramazzini and Thackrah, the study of the complex web of events linking people’s work history to their disease status has over the centuries produced a systematic...

Nursing leadership competency learning- an integrative review

Background: In the last decade literature, inquiries and reports into the short comings in health services have highlighted the vital role of leadership in clinical practice and the impact on patient care and effective workplace culture. Given the important role of nurses as the largest therapeutic group in health systems, the question is how nurses acquire clinical leadership ...

Evaluation of Broiler Health Status Through Flock Health Monitoring Program in Bangladesh

Flock health monitoring program is an important system, used in the poultry industry worldwide to minimize the production cost, detect clinical and subclinical diseases and acquire data to make comparisons among the farms and identify the future research area. The present study was aimed to investigate the broiler health status through a flock health monitoring program using the lesion scoring ...

Consulting in occupational health nursing.

Evaluation of an artificial intelligence program for estimating occupational exposures.

Estimation and Assessment of Substance Exposure (EASE) is an artificial intelligence program developed by UK's Health and Safety Executive to assess exposure. EASE computes estimated airborne concentrations based on a substance's vapor pressure and the types of controls in the work area. Though EASE is intended only to make broad predictions of exposure from occupational environments, some occu...