Professional Practice
WHAT do Occupational Health Nurses Do?
- Identify workplace risks and focus on protection measures
- Act as team members to promote health and safety policy and procedures
- Administer healthy workplace protocols within the legal regulations
- Offer life style-work balance coping skills to enhance worker's health
- Educate workers on the hazards of the physical demands of the work
- Provide primary care for injured and ill workers on site
- Recommend prevention measures to safeguard the workers health
- Case manage recovery of injured and ill workers, rehabilitation treatment planning and fitness to return to work
- Summarize outcome measures to prove healthy workplace programs are beneficial