Strategies for comprehensive nurse managed occupational health services: focusing on work related health problems while maintaining comprehensive care delivery

Abstract

1. Occupational health nurses can position themselves to be valuable assets as human resources become more important in the complicated world of producing products, services, managing employees, and making a profit. 2. An on-site nurse managed occupational health unit provides opportunities for positively influencing employees' health while affording multiple opportunities for the occupational health nurse to impact the bottom line of the business unit. Exploring the opportunities can lead to exciting program development and implementation. 3. The nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation) can be applied to occupational health programs and service development. This technique assists the nurse in identifying an organization's strengths and weaknesses and in developing the strategies for the implementation of a coordinated program.