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Occupational Health Nursing Practice and its Roles

Carolyn Lindgren*
Department of Health Science, South Miami Hospital, USA

Occupational Health Nursing is a professional nursing practice support health promotion to maintain worker health and productivity
that provides and provides health and safety programs and services include immunity, quitting, exercise / health, diet and weight
to workers, worker groups, and community groups [1]. The management, stress management, chronic disease management [4],
practice focuses on promoting, maintaining and recovering health, and medical services included.
preventing illness and injury, and protecting against work-related
3. Counseling and Crisis Intervention: Occupational Health
and environmental hazards. Occupational Health Nurses (OHNs)
Nurses (OHN) provides counseling to workers on a wide range of
aim to combine health and business knowledge to strike a balance
issues. They provide advice on common issues such as work-related
between a safe and healthy work environment and “healthy” earnings.
issues and injuries. We also provide counseling on other issues such as
Occupational nursing is found in almost all major medical facilities.
substance abuse, psychological issues, and health and welfare concerns.
Occupational medicine is a nursing niche that specializes in assessing
OHN can also manage employee assistance programs, conduct
and assessing the "health" of employees and helps maintain the highest
referrals, and coordinate follow-up for community resources.
levels of well-being in the workforce. Key elements of workplace
health care include workplace illness and injury prevention, health Identifying Workplace Hazards: OHN are responsible for
and welfare, protection and education [2]. Occupational health and identification of workplace hazards or potential hazards. They are
safety nurses are also responsible for conducting research projects able to conduct investigations to monitor, evaluate and analyze certain
and incorporating evidence-based practices into clinical practice. dangerous factors [5]. By conducting an investigation, you can develop
Workplace health care is an important niche and serves to protect a security plan and implement preventative and control measures.
and promote the well-being of the community and workforce. The Examples of workplace hazards include exposure to toxic chemicals,
modern role of occupational physicians is as diverse as clinicians and enclosed spaces, frayed cords, exposure to infectious substances,
educators [3]. As the profession progresses, it is also responsible for extreme heat / cold, and injuries such as falls. It is important to recognize
this profession. Areas covered by professional nurses include, but are patterns and make changes to promote a safer work environment.
not limited to the below:
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*Corresponding author: Carolyn Lindgren, Department of Health Science, South

Miami Hospital, USA, E-mail: [email protected]

Received: 4-Mar-2022, Manuscript No: omha-22-57591, Editor assigned:

7-March -2022, Pre-QC No: omha-22-57591 (PQ), Reviewed: 14-Mar-2022, QC
No omha-22-57591; Revised: 18-Mar-2022, Manuscript No: omha-22-57591 (R);
Published: 25-Mar-2022, DOI: 10.4172/2329-6879.1000398

Citation: Lindgren C (2022) Occupational Health Nursing Practice and its Roles.
Occup Med Health 10: 397.

Copyright: © 2022 Lindgren C. This is an open-access article distributed under

the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted
use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and
source are credited.

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