Occupational Health Surveillance, Screening, and Prevention Activities in Occupational Health Nursing Practice

Research to practice in occupational health nursing.

Occupational health nursing research has gained a significant place in national and international nursing programs and has advanced occupational health nurses' understanding of the most effective ways to prevent occupational illness and injury, provide access to quality care for workers, and manage occupational injuries and return to work. This article describes the history of nursing research ...

Surveillance in occupational health.

Adefinition of surveillance is as follows: “surveillance (ser-vâ lens) noun. 1. Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion. 2. The act of observing or the condition of being observed” (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992). The term “surveillance” is derived from the French word meaning “to watch over”....

Consulting in occupational health nursing.

Occupational and environmental health nursing: the foundations of quality practice.

This article discusses the various standards, regulations, and guidelines that practicing occupational and environmental health nurses follow to ensure the delivery of quality, competent care in all occupational and environmental health nursing practice settings.

The role of advanced nursing practice in occupational health.

BACKGROUND There is a concern that current specialist occupational health (OH) training programmes in the UK are not delivering nurses equipped to deal with the challenges of emerging practice. The development of new training programmes and advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) roles provide a potential solution. Although a model of advanced nursing practice has been developing, its relevance to OH...