Occupational Health: Core Areas of Knowledge and Competence, Part 2

OHA's can contribute by helping managers to manage sickness absence more effectively. The nurse may be involved in helping to train line managers and supervisors in how to best use the OH service, in how to refer staff, what type of information will be required, what to expect from occupational health. By developing transparent referral procedures, ensuring that medical confidentiality is maintained and that the workers' rights are respected the OHA can do much to ensure that employees referred for assessment due to sickness absence are comfortable with the process. OH nurses, with their close relationship with workers, knowledge of the working environment and trends in ill-health in the company are often in a good position to advise management on preventing sickness absence. In my experience referral to General Practitioners have a limited use for work related issues, and gain best results by as well as keeping the GP aware, referring to a specialist occupational physician. Planned rehabilitation strategies, can help to ensure safe return to work for employees who have been absent from work due to ill-health or injury. The nurse is often the key person in the rehabilitation programme who will, with the manager and individual employee, complete a risk assessment, devise the rehabilitation programme, monitor progress and communicate with the individual, the OH physician and the line manager. Nurses have also become involved in introducing proactive rehabilitation strategies that aim to detect early changes in health before such conditions result in absence from work. Improving and sustaining working ability benefits many groups, the individual, the organization and society, as costly absence and other health care costs are avoided. In many cases the OH nurse has to work within the organization as the clients advocate in order ensuring that managers appreciate fully the value of improving the health of the workforce. OH nurses have the skills necessary to undertake this work and may develop areas of special interest. The occupational health nurse may develop pro-active strategies to help the workforce maintain or restore their work ability. New workers, older workers, women returning to work following pregnancy or workers who have been unemployed for a prolonged period of time may all benefit from health advice or a planned programme of work hardening exercises to help maintain or restore their work ability even before any health problems arise. Increasingly the problems faced by industry are of a psychosocial nature and these can be even more complex and costly to deal with. OH nurses, working at the company level, are in a good position to give advice to management on strategies that can be adopted to improve the psycho-social health and wellbeing of workers. https://www.fisicofarma.com.br/ https://www.2perform.com.br/ www.drchelbi.com http://www.computeyourworld.com.au/ https://www.telechats.com https://www.papeldeparede.tur.br www.winnys-meals.com http://rsooiluk.co.uk/ http://fuckyeahneilpatrickharris.com http://codefreelas.com http://fuckyeahneilpatrickharris.com http://codefreelas.com http://erborrico.com http://przedszkole34.com http://piotrgatlik.com http://4u-des.com http://iisretard.com http://send-picture.com http://johnlarroquetteproject.com http://lavieestunmiracle.com http://panoptictracking.com http://friendsofphilhare.com http://carnarvonarms.com http://janehankok.com http://surakhanrestaurant.com http://ybw-directory.com http://legalquotationsonline.com http://emulelinki.com http://noproblemguarantee.com http://restaurante-sierra-madrigal.com http://taxe-anaf.com http://hasportal2launchedyet.com http://katzer13.com http://b-bingana.com http://t7leeh.com http://venditacuscinetti.com http://panoptictracking.com http://emotihost.com http://khairomah.com http://asmeninasonline.com http://affairedopinion.com http://archive-vb.com http://kfada.com http://velvet-rain.com http://tarkforcongress.com